Part IV Supplementary

47 Savings.

Nothing in this Act or in any order made thereunder shall—

a

F7affect the powers conferred on the F1Secretary of State under the M1Dockyard Ports Regulation Act 1865;

F6b

F8F2affect any right conferred by or in accordance with F6 the electronic communications code on the operator of an electronic communications code network or any duty of any such operator under that code;

F3c

authorise or require any person—

i

to carry out any work of alteration, improvement, repair, maintenance, demolition or removal on any works constructed or maintainable by a F4river authority or other drainage authority, or

ii

to carry out any work on land on which the sowing or planting of vegetation is carried out or vegetation is maintained by a F4river authority or other drainage authority,

unless the F4river authority or other authority consents or the work is to be done by, or under a scheme prepared by, a coast protection board on which the F4river authority or other authority is represented and is to be carried out in the area of that coast protection board;

F3c

authorise or require any person—

i

to carry out any work of alteration, improvement, repair, maintenance, demolition or removal on any works constructed or maintainable by the National Rivers Authority or an internal drainage board, or

ii

to carry out any work on land on which the sowing or planting of vegetation is carried out or vegetation is maintained by the National Rivers Authority or an internal drainage board,

unless the National Rivers Authority or the internal drainage board consents or the work is done by, or under a scheme prepared by, a coast protection board on which the National Rivers Authority or the internal drainage board is represented and is to be carried out in the area of that coast protection board;

d

F9authorise or require any person to carry out any work or do anything in contravention of the F5the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979; or

e

authorise or require any person to carry out any work of alteration, improvement, repair, maintenance, demolition or removal on any works constructed for the drainage of agricultural land in Scotland, unless the Secretary of State consents.