1(1)The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the appropriate authority and the sewerage authority concerned, have effect for the protection of the sewerage authorities.U.K.
(2)In this Part of this Schedule—
“appropriate authority” does not include the Secretary of State in respect of the A20 improvement works;
“sewer” includes any main used for the conveyance of sewage sludge or sewage effluent and any pipe, subway or storm overflow or other apparatus vested in, or maintained by, the sewerage authority for the purposes of sewerage or sewage disposal, but does not include any such apparatus in respect of which the relations between the appropriate authority and the sewerage authority are regulated by the provisions of Part II of the M1Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950;
“the sewerage authority” means the Southern Water Authority and the Thames Water Authority, or either of them, in their capacity as authorities responsible for sewerage and sewage disposal, and includes a local authority as a relevant authority for the purposes of section 15 of the M2Water Act 1973;
“specified work” means so much of any of the works authorised by this Act (other than the A20 improvement works) as may be situated over, or within 15 metres measured in any direction of, or impose any load directly upon, any sewer.