HL Deb 18 July 1989 vol 510 cc754-5

25 Schedule 5, page 41, line 37, leave out from beginning to end of line 13 on page 42 and insert— '"relevant undertaker" means—

  1. (a) any person or authority authorised by or under any Act (whether public general or local) to carry on any railway, tramway, road transport, water transport, canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour, pier or lighthouse undertaking;
  2. (b) any person to whom the telecommunications code is applied by a licence under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 authorising him to run a telecommunications system;
  3. (c) any public gas supplier (within the meaning of Part I of the Gas Act 1986);
  4. (d) any holder of a licence under Part I of the Electricity Act 1989 who is entitled to exercise any power conferred by paragraph 1 or 2 of Schedule 4 to that Act;
  5. (e) the National Rivers Authority or any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker;
  6. (f) any other licensed operator of a driver information system; or
  7. (g) any person to whom this Schedule is applied by any Act passed after this Act;
undertaker's works" means—
  1. (a) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling within paragraph (a) above, any works which he is authorised to execute for the purpose of, or in connection with, the carrying on by him of the undertaking mentioned in that paragraph;
  2. (b) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling within paragraph (b) above, any works which he is authorised to execute for the purposes of, or in connection with, a telecommunication system run by him;
  3. (c) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling within paragraph (c) above, any works which he is authorised to execute for the purposes of, or in connection with, his supplying gas as a public gas supplier;
  4. (d) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling within paragraph (d) above, any works which he is authorised to execute for any purpose connected with the carrying on of the activities which he is authorised by his licence to carry on;
  5. (e) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling wihin paragraph (e) above, any works which that Authority or undertaker has power to execute for purposes connected with the carrying on of its functions;
  6. (f) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling within paragraph (f) above, any works which he is authorised to execute for the purposes of, or in connection with, a driver information system operated by him; and
  7. (g) in relation to a relevant undertaker falling within paragraph (g) above, the works for the purposes of which this Schedule is applied to him.".'.

Lord Brabazon of Tara

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 25.

Before speaking to this amendment I should like to draw noble Lords' attention to an error on the Marshalled List. The amendment should refer to page 41, line 37 and not line 36 as printed.

The amendment introduces a replacement for paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Bill which provides definitions of "relevant undertaker" and "undertakers works" for the purposes of that schedule. The new paragraph consists only of drafting amendments.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 25.—(Lord Brabazon of Tara.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.