Article 6 Subsidiary powers to the Borough

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this Order and within the limits of deviation or on any land vested in the Borough at the date this Order comes into force or to be acquired or used by the Borough for the purposes of this Order the Borough, in connection with and for the purposes of the authorised works, may—

(a)

make junctions and communications between any of those works and any watercourses and any existing streets, roads, ways, river walls, bridges and footpaths;

(b)

make, provide and maintain all necessary or convenient—

(i)

buildings, walls, banks, embankments, borrow pits, quays, slipways, pavings, yards, moorings;

(ii)

boat-hoists, rollers and other facilities for transporting boats;

(iii)

fish ladders or passes or other apparatus for facilitating the passage of fish; and

(iv)

piling, fences, culverts, drains, intakes, syphons, watercourses, weirs, sluices, wharves, mattresses, pitching, gabions, roads, bridges, towing paths, footpaths and landscaping works, mains, pipes, cables, wires, machinery works and appliances;

(c)

dispose of spoil or other material excavated in the execution of the authorised works;

(d)

execute any works for the protection of any adjoining lands or buildings;

(e)

remove, alter, divert or stop up any watercourse (except the river) or sewer (not being a watercourse), the Borough providing a proper substitute before interrupting the flow of water or sewage in any such watercourse or sewer;

(f)

alter any mains, pipes, wires and other works and apparatus for conveying or transmitting water, sludge, gas, electricity or petroleum (as defined in the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928^f1).

(2)

In the exercise of the powers contained in this Order, the Borough shall cause as little detriment and inconvenience to any person as circumstances admit and shall pay compensation to all persons for any loss or damage sustained by them by reason of the exercise by the Borough of such powers and any question as to the amount of the compensation to be so paid shall be determined by the tribunal.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1928 c. 32.