(1)The council of each maritime county borough or county district shall, subject to the provisions of any order under the next following section, be the coast protection authority for the county borough or county district, as the case may be.
(2)A coast protection authority shall have such powers and perform such duties in connection with the protection of land in their area as are conferred or imposed on coast protection authorities by this Act.
(3)In the application of this section to Scotland, for references to a county borough or to a county district there shall be substituted respectively references to a burgh or to a county, and in subsection (1) the words from " subject to " to " section " shall be omitted.