PART 6MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Disapplication of legislative provisions, etc.40.

(1)

The following provisions do not apply in relation to the construction of any work or the carrying out of any operation required for the purpose of, or in connection with, the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised development—

(a)

sections 23 (prohibition of obstructions, etc. in watercourses), 30 (authorisation of drainage works in connection with a ditch) and 32 (variation of awards) of the Land Drainage Act 199154;

(b)

the provisions of any byelaws made under section 66 (powers to make byelaws) of the Land Drainage Act 1991;

(c)

the provisions of any byelaws made under, or having effect as if made under, paragraphs 5, 6 or 6A of Schedule 25 (byelaw making powers of the appropriate agency) to the Water Resources Act 199155; and

(d)

regulation 12 (requirement for environmental permit) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 201656 in respect of a flood risk activity only.

(2)

The provisions of the Neighbourhood Planning Act 201757, insofar as they relate to temporary possession of land under this Order, do not apply in relation to the construction of any work or the carrying out of any operation required for the purpose of, or in connection with, the construction of the authorised development and, within the maintenance period defined in article 34(12) (temporary use of land for maintaining the authorised development) of this Order, any maintenance of any part of the authorised development.

(3)

Section 25 of the Burial Act 185758 (bodies not to be removed from burial grounds, save under faculty, without licence of Secretary of State) does not apply to a removal carried out in accordance with article 24 (removal of human remains) of this Order.

(4)

Despite the provisions of section 208 (liability) of the 2008 Act, for the purposes of regulation 6 of the Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations 201059 any building comprised in the authorised development is deemed to be—

(a)

a building into which people do not normally go; or

(b)

a building into which people go only intermittently for the purpose of inspecting or maintaining fixed plant or machinery.