3 Effect of transfers and acquisitions of marine works.S
(1)Nothing in any Act whereby any marine work is vested in or belongs to any body or person shall be deemed to prevent the transfer of such work to a local authority under section one of this Act, and where any such marine work is so transferred or is purchased compulsorily by a local authority under section two of this Act the provisions of such first mentioned Act and of any other Act relating to the marine work shall, save as provided in section nineteen of this Act or in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, have effect as if the local authority had been the undertakers named in such first mentioned Acts.
(2)On the application of the local authority to whom any marine work has been transferred under section one of this Act or by whom any marine work has been purchased compulsorily under section two of this Act, the [F1Secretary of State for Scotland] may, by order, make such adaptations or modifications of the provisions of any local Act applying to such marine work as may seem to him necessary to bring those provisions into conformity with the provisions of this Act.
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F1Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1970/1537, art. 6 Sch. 2 para. 2