HC Deb 28 March 1983 vol 40 cc109-10

.—(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of the enactments conferring functions on sewer authorities or any limitation imposed by any enactment or instrument on the use to which a particular public sewer may be put, the sewer authority in relation to any public sewer may—

  1. (a) carry out, or authorise any other person to carry out, telecommunication works in that sewer;
  2. (b) keep telecommunication apparatus installed in that sewer or authorise any other person to keep telecommunication apparatus so installed;
  3. (c) authorise any person to enter that sewer to inspect telecommunication apparatus kept installed there; and
  4. (d) enter into an agreement on such terms (including terms as to the payments to be made to the authority) as it thinks fit in connection with the doing of anything authorised by or under this section.

(2) In this section— public sewer"—

  1. (a) in England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the Public Health Act 1936;
  2. (b) in Scotland, means any sewer which is vested in a regional or islands council; and
  3. (c) in Northern Ireland, means any sewer which is vested in the Department of the Environment, for Northern Ireland;
sewer authority" in relation to a public sewer means the authority in which the sewer is vested or any other authority which discharges functions of that authority in relation to that sewer and is authorised by the authority in which the sewer is vested to act on its behalf for the purposes of this section; telecommunications apparatus" has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to this Act; and telecommunication works" means works for or in connection with the installation, maintenance, adjustment, repair or alteration (within the meaning of that Schedule) of telecommunication apparatus. '.—[Mr. Kenneth Baker.]

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.

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