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Highways Act 1980

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330Construction of certain enactments relating to execution of works by statutory undertakers

(1)Where by any enactment empowering statutory undertakers to execute works under, in, upon, over, along or across a highway the undertakers are thereby required—

(a)to give notice to, or obtain the consent or approval of, a council,

(b)to carry out the works under the superintendence of a council,

(c)to reinstate the highway to the satisfaction of a council, or

(d)to do anything in relation to a road for which a county council are the highway authority (whether so described or described as a " county road "),

any such requirement, and any provision of the enactment empowering the council to act in default of the undertakers or otherwise to enforce any such requirement, has effect, in relation to a trunk road, with the substitution, for references to the council, of references to the Minister and, for references to a road for which a county council are the highway authority (or a county road), of references to a trunk road.

(2)Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment as to the determination of disputes arising between statutory undertakers and a council in connection with the execution of any such works, any such dispute arising in the case of a trunk road between statutory undertakers and the Minister shall be determined by a single arbitrator appointed, in default of agreement between the parties concerned, by the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

(3)Nothing in this section affects Part I of the [1950 c. 39.] Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950.

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