Act repealed (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(2), Sch.9 (with savings in ss. 103(5), 161(2), 162(5)); (E.W.) S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch.2; (S.) S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch.2.

Act repealed (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(2), Sch. 9 (with savings in ss. 103(5), 161(2), 162(5)); (E.W.) S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch.2; (S.) S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch.2.

Word “road” substituted (S.) for word “street” by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), Sch. 9 para. 39(30)

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/39/section/37Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 (repealed 1.1.1993)[An Act to enact uniform provisions for regulating relations as to apparatus in streets between authorities, bodies and persons having statutory powers to place and deal with apparatus therein, and those having the control or management of streets and others concerned in the exercise of such powers; to render such powers exercisable in land which abuts on a street and is destined for use for road purposes; to make further provision for regulating the closing or restriction of use of roads for the purposes of works and as to the use of alternative routes; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid].1987-09-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2015-09-281993-01-01Part IV General Interpretation
37 References to property held or used for transport undertakings, and to powers for railway or tramway purposes.1

References in this Act to a streetroad which crosses or is crossed by property held or used for the purposes of a transport undertaking extend to cases in which the streetroad and the property in question are at different levels as well as to cases in which they are on the same level, but the transport authority shall not be treated as an authority concerned as regards undertakers’ works in such a streetroad, or be entitled to elect themselves to execute any of them, where the property in question consists only of—

a

subsoil of the streetroad, or land under it, which is held by the transport authority but is not used, and has not been adapted for use, for the purposes of the undertaking, or

b

property underground at such a depth that there is no reasonable possibility of the works’ affecting it;

and the Fourth Schedule to this Act (which requires notice and settling of specifications in connection with transport works which affect apparatus of undertakers) shall not apply where the property in which such works are to be executed is underground at such a depth that there is no reasonable possibility of their affecting the apparatus in question.

2

The provisions of this Act relating to a streetroad which crosses or is crossed by property held or used for the purposes of a transport undertaking shall apply to a streetroad which is or forms part of a towing-path or other way running along a canal or inland navigation, being a path or way which, or the subsoil of which, is held or used for the purposes of the canal or inland navigation undertaking.

3

References in this Act to a power conferred for purposes of a railway undertaking or a tramway undertaking include references to a power conferred primarily for those purposes but for other purposes also, and references therein to works, or to apparatus held or used, for purposes of a railway undertaking or a tramway undertaking, or for purposes of a railway undertaking, shall be construed in like manner.

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<p>and the Fourth Schedule to this Act (which requires notice and settling of specifications in connection with transport works which affect apparatus of undertakers) shall not apply where the property in which such works are to be executed is underground at such a depth that there is no reasonable possibility of their affecting the apparatus in question.</p>
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