HC Deb 16 June 1958 vol 589 cc766-7

Amendment made: In page 13, line 15, after "undertaking", insert: and any reference to the appropriate Minister were a reference to the appropriate Minister as defined by this Act". —[Sir I. Horobin.]

Sir I. Horobin

I beg to move, in page 13, to leave out lines 21 and 22 and to insert: (2) Without prejudice to the preceding subsection, the provisions of the said section twenty-five shall have effect in relation to land which is for the time being comprised in an authorisation under section one of this Act—

  1. (a) subject to the modifications specified in paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of the preceding subsection, and
  2. (b) as if any reference in those provisions to the person carrying on a statutory undertaking included a reference to a river board or other drainage authority, and, in relation to a river board or other drainage authority, any reference to the carrying on of the undertaking were a reference to the performance of the functions of the authority.
(3) Where any requirement is imposed by virtue of section twenty-five of the said Act of 1944 as applied by either of the preceding subsections, the provisions of sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of that Act (which relate to the powers, duties and obligations of statutory undertakers) and of the First and Fourth Schedules to that Act (which relate respectively to the procedure for dealing with objections under those sections and to the assessment of compensation) shall have effect in relation to that requirement (subject to the modifications specified in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1) of this section, or, as the case may be, subject to those modifications and the further modifications specified in paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection) as if it were a requirement imposed under the said section twenty-five as applied for the purposes of Part IV of the Act of 1947.

Sir I. Horobin

This Amendment, with those to which I have already referred, is necessary to give effect to my undertaking to protect river boards.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In page 13, line 24, leave out from "provisions" to the second "in" in line 25 and insert: referred to in the preceding subsections apply in accordance with those subsections.

In line 40, after "1944", insert: and to the First and Fourth Schedules to that Act.

In line 42, after "1945", insert: and to the First and Fourth Schedules to that Act.

In line 43, leave out "the reference" and insert "references".

In line 43, after "1947" insert: and to Part IV of that Act.

In line 44, leave out "a reference" and insert "respectively references".

In line 45, after "1947", insert: and to Part III of that Act."—[Sir I. Horobin.]