SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Minor and Consequential Amendments
The Water Resources Act 1963
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(1)
In section 67 of the Water Resources Act 1963 (compulsory powers for carrying out engineering or building operations), after subsection (5) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(5A)
An order under this section shall not authorise the doing of anything to or in relation to any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system.”.
(2)
For section 130 of that Act (which applies section 7 of the M1Telegraph Act 1878 to engineering or building operations of a water authority) there shall be substituted the following section:—
“130
Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code (which provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the alteration of telecommunication apparatus) shall apply to a water authority for the purposes of engineering or building operations of the authority.”.