STATUTE LAW REVISION: SIXTEENTH ... - Law Commission

(c) provisions giving protection against the exercise of gas
undertakers’ powers so far as protection is given to railway and
canal undertakers by paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the Gas Act
1986 44 ;
(d) provisions giving protection against the exercise of water
undertakers’ powers so far as protection is given to electricity, gas,
water, telecommunications, railway and canal undertakers, and the
Environment Agency, by Schedule 13 to the Water Industry Act
1991; 45
(e) provisions giving protection to electricity and gas undertakers
against competition which became redundant in consequence of
nationalisation in 1948-49;
(f) provisions giving protection against the exercise of powers which
have been repealed or which are proposed for repeal;
(g) provisions which have become obsolete through abandonment of
the undertakings or works against which the protection was given;
(h) provisions protecting one local authority against the exercise of
powers by another local authority which became spent when the
two authorities were amalgamated;
(i) restrictions on the exercise of compulsory purchase powers which
are obsolete;
(j) a number of protective provisions in enactments relating to bridges
which are considered below. 46
37 Bridges
5.1 The proposed repeals include thirteen local enactments relating to ten bridges -
the Evesham (formerly Bengeworth) bridge over the river Avon, 47 the
Worcester, 48 Bewdley, 49 Holt Fleet 50 and Stourport 51 bridges over the river
Severn, the Kerne, 52 Hoarwithy 53 and Fownhope and Holme Lacy 54 bridges over
the river Wye, and the Ham and Stanford bridges 55 over the river Teme.
44
As amended by paragraph 119 of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act
1991.
45 Consolidating the Water Act 1989, s 160 and Sch 19, para 3, and as amended by the
Environment Act 1995, s 120(1), Sch 22 para 127: Environment Act 1995 (Commencement
No 5) Order 1996 (SI 1996 No 186), Article 3.
46 Paras 5.17 and 5.23.
47 1662 (c 34); 1824 (c.lxvii), s 67; 1853 (c.xvi).
48 1769 (c 84); 1779 (c 42); 1823 (c.xxxii).
49 1795 (c 78).
50 1826 (c.lix).
51 1892 (c.xxiii).
52 1825 (c.lx).
53 1855 (c.v).
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