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1(1)The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be a statutory undertaker and his undertaking a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely—E+W+S

(i)section 16 of the M1Public Health Act 1925;

(ii)the M2Public Health Act 1936;

F1(iii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(iv)Schedule 3 to the M3Water Act 1945;

(v)section 4 of the M4Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;

[F2(vi)the M5Water Act 1948;]

(vii)the National Parks and Access to the M6Countryside Act 1949;

(viii)the M7Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;

(ix)the M8Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;

(x)the M9Opencast Coal Act 1958;

(xi)the M10Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961;

(xii)section 17(10) of the M11Public Health Act 1961;

(xiii)the M12Pipe-lines Act 1962;

(xiv)Schedule 3 to the M13Harbours Act 1964;

(xv)Schedule 6 to the M14Gas Act 1965;

(xvi). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3

(xvii)section 40 of the M15Forestry Act 1967;

(xviii)section 50 of the M16Agriculture Act 1967;

(xix)section 38 of the M17Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;

(xx)paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the M18Countryside Act 1968;

(xxi)section 22 of the M19Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;

(xxii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

F5(xxiii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxiv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(xxv)sections 51 . . . F4of the M20Land Compensation Act 1973;

(xxvi)sections 47 F6. . . of the M21Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973;

(xxvii)Part III of the M22Control of Pollution Act 1974;

(xxviii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7

(xxix)the M23Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;

(xxx)sections 15(3) and 26 of the M24Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;

F8(xxxi). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(xxxii)section 9(3) of the M25Inner Urban Areas Act 1978;

(xxxiii)the M26Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;

(xxxiv)[F9Part] XVI of the M27Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;

(xxxv)section 53 of the M28Civil Aviation Act 1982;

(xxxvi)section 30 of the M29Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;

(xxxvii)section 120 of the M30Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;

(xxxviii)section 2(2)(c) of the M31Cycle Tracks Act 1984;

(xxxix)the M32Building Act 1984;

(xl)section 283(2) of the M33Housing Act 1985;

(xli)paragraph 11 of Schedule 8 to the M34Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

[F10(xlii)section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990.]

(2)References in the M35Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 to a statutory company shall be construed as including references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act.

F11(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4)The references in sections 73(11)(c) and 74(11)(b) of the M36Highways Act 1980 to electricity undertakers shall be construed as references to the holder of a licence under section 6(1)(a) of this Act.

F2[(5)The holder of a licence under section 6(1) of this Act shall be deemed to be an excepted undertaker for the purposes of section 6 of the M37Water Act 1981.]

(6)Paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 to the M38Telecommunications Act 1984 (undertakers’ works) shall apply to a licence holder for the purposes of any works carried out by him.

(7)The reference in section 82(4) of the M39Building Act 1984 (provisions with respect to demolition orders) to a person authorised by an enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of electricity shall be construed as a reference to a licence holder.

(8)A licence holder shall be deemed to be a public undertaker and his undertaking a public undertaking for the purposes of section 125 of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 8 to, the M40Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(iii) repealed (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 67, Sch. 11 Pt. II (with s. 40(7)); S.I. 1994/2553, art. 2

F2Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(vi) and (5) repealed (E.W.) (01.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 3(1), 4(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I.

F4Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxii)(xxiv) and words in para. 1(1)(xxv) repealed by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I

F5Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxiii) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11 ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)

F6Words in Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxvi) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with s. 5, Sch. 3)

F7Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxviii), para. 3(2)(f) repealed by Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35, SIF 64), s. 38(2), Sch. 5 Pt. I

F8Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxxi) repealed (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 152, Sch. 18 Pt. IV (with ss. 137(1), 139(2), 141(1), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4

F9Words in Sch. 16 para. 1(1)(xxxiv) substituted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 38, s. 135(2)(b) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4

F11Sch. 16 para. 1(3) repealed (14.11.2005) by Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (c. 36), s. 34(1), Sch. 3; S.I. 2005/2040, art. 3(r)

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