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British Waterways Act 1995 (c. i)

1995 CHAPTER i

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

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  1. Part I

    Preliminary

    1. 1. Short and collective titles.

    2. 2. Interpretation.

  2. Part II

    Entry on land

    1. 3. Interpretation of Part II.

    2. 4. Entry on to land in cases of emergency.

    3. 5. Notice of entry, etc.

    4. 6. Power to enter land and carry out relevant operations pursuant to notice of entry.

    5. 7. Saving in cases of emergency.

    6. 8. Further provisions as to entry.

    7. 9. Payment for entry.

    8. 10. Compensation.

    9. 11. Disputes as to payments, etc.

    10. 12. Offences under Part II.

    11. 13. For protection of relevant undertakers.

    12. 14. For protection of Port of London Authority.

    13. 15. Saving for Thames Conservancy Act 1932.

  3. Part III

    Regulation and management of inland waterways

    1. 16. General terms of houseboat certificates.

    2. 17. Conditions as to certificates and licences.

    3. 18. Obstruction by vessels.

    4. 19. Removal of vessels to permit works, etc.

    5. 20. Provisions as to private moorings.

    6. 21. Control of moorings, etc.

  4. Part IV

    Miscellaneous and general

    1. 22. General environmental and recreational duties.

    2. 23. Amendment of section 49 of Transport Act 1968.

    3. 24. As to power to establish undertakings on request.

    4. 25. Power to appropriate parts of docks.

    5. 26. Weston Point Docks.

    6. 27. Provisions as to sections 25 and 26.

    7. 28. Limehouse Basin.

    8. 29. Repeal of section 147 of Severn Navigation Act 1842.

    9. 30. River Weaver to be river waterway.

    10. 31. Notices.

    11. 32. Arbitration.

    12. 33. As to certain legal proceedings.

    13. 34. Crown rights.

    14. 35. Saving for Trinity House.

    15. 36. Repeals.

    16. 37. Application to Scotland.

  5. Schedules:

    1. Schedule 1

      —General terms of houseboat certificates—

      1. Part I

        Introductory.

      2. Part II

        Terms applicable to sites controlled by Board.

      3. Part III

        Terms applicable to all certificates.

    2. Schedule 2

      1. Part I

        Insurance policies as to vessels.

      2. Part II

        Standards for construction and equipment of vessels.

    3. Schedule 3

      Repeals.

An Act to confer powers on the British Waterways Board to enter land and repair or maintain, or carry out other operations with respect to, the waterways owned or managed by them and other works; to confer further powers on the Board for the regulation and management of their waterways and in relation to their undertaking; to amend or repeal statutory provisions relating to the Board or their undertaking; and for other purposes.

[16th January 1995]

WHEREAS—

(1)

By the [1962 c. 46.] Transport Act 1962 the British Waterways Board (in this Act referred to as “the Board”) were established:

(2)

It is expedient that powers should be conferred on the Board to enter land and repair or maintain, or carry out other operations with respect to, the inland waterways owned or managed by them and other works in circumstances where it would not be reasonably practicable for such repairs, maintenance or operations to be carried out without such entry:

(3)

It is expedient that further provisions should be made for the regulation and management by the Board of the inland waterways owned or managed by them and that certain statutory provisions relating to the Board or their undertaking should be amended or repealed:

(4)

It is expedient that the other powers in this Act contained should be conferred upon the Board and that the other provisions in this Act contained should be enacted:

(5)

The purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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