Electricity Act 1989

Interpretation E+W+S

12 In this Schedule—

• “moveables” means chattels in relation to England and Wales and corporeal moveables in relation to Scotland;

• “navigation authority” means any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, authorised by or under any enactment to work, maintain, conserve, improve or control any canal or other inland navigation, navigable river, estuary, harbour or dock;

• “the Planning Act” means [F1 the Town and Country Planning Act 1990]or the M1 Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972;

• “planning permission” means a planning permission granted under Part III of the Planning Act;

• “public gas supplier” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M2 Gas Act 1986;

• “public telecommunications operator” has the same meanings as in the M3 Telecommunications Act 1984;

• “railway authority” means any person or body of persons, whether incorporated or not, authorised by any enactment to construct, work or carry on a railway;

• “statutory undertakers” has the same meaning as in the Planning Act;

• “telecommunication apparatus” and “telecommunication system” have the same meanings as in the Telecommunications Act 1984 and “the telecommunications code” means the code contained in Schedule 2 to that Act;

• “the Tribunal” means the Lands Tribunal in relation to England and Wales and the Lands Tribunal for Scotland in relation to Scotland.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 83(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 1972 c. 52.

M2 1986 c. 44.

M3 1984 c. 12.