Part I Provisions Applying Generally
Water Industry Act 1991 (1991 c 56) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 13 Protective Provisions in Respect of Certain Undertakings

Section 183

Part I Provisions Applying Generally

General provisions protecting undertakings

1

(1)     Nothing in this Act conferring power on a relevant undertaker to carry out any works shall confer power to do anything, except with the consent of the persons carrying on an undertaking protected by this paragraph, which, whether directly or indirectly, so interferes or will so interfere—

(a)     with works or property vested in or under the control of the persons carrying on that undertaking, in their capacity as such; or

(b)     with the use of any such works or property,

as to affect injuriously those works or that property or the carrying on of that undertaking.

(2)     Without prejudice to the construction of sub-paragraph (1) above for the purposes of its application in relation to the other provisions of this Act, that sub-paragraph shall have effect in its application in relation to the relevant sewerage provisions as if any use of, injury to or interference with any sluices, floodgates, sewers, groynes, sea defences or other works which are vested in or under the control of [the Environment Agency] [or the NRBW] or an internal drainage

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