3. Subject to paragraph 5 below, functions conferred on a local highway authority as competent authority, by virtue of its being a highway authority for a highway, by or under any of the following provisions of the 1980 Act:
(a)section 143(1)(1) (competent authority’s power to give notice requiring removal of structures from highways); and
(b)section 154(1)(2), (1A)(3) and (2) (competent authority’s power to give notice requiring removal of overhanging hedge, tree or shrub); and
(c)section 185(4) (competent authority’s power to install etc. refuse or storage bins in streets).
Section 143(1)(a) was amended by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).
Section 154(1)(b) was amended by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).
Section 154(1A) was inserted by section 22(1) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19).
Section 185(3)(b) was amended by section 190 of, and Schedule 25 to, the Water Act 1989 (c. 15).