{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coast-protection-act-1949/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coast-protection-act-1949/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/74",
  "legislation_title": "Coast Protection Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coast-protection-act-1949",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Savings.",
  "text": "Nothing in this Act or in any order made thereunder shall—\n(a) affect the powers conferred on the Secretary of State under the Dockyard Ports Regulation Act 1865;\n(b) affect any right conferred by or in accordance with the electronic communications code on the operator of an electronic communications code network or any duty of any such operator under that code;\n(c) authorise or require any person—\n(i) to carry out any work of alteration, improvement, repair, maintenance, demolition or removal on any works constructed or maintainable by a river authority or other drainage authority, or\n(ii) to carry out any work on land on which the sowing or planting of vegetation is carried out or vegetation is maintained by a river authority or other drainage authority,\nunless the river authority or other authority consents or the work is to be done by, or under a scheme prepared by, a coast protection board on which the river authority or other authority is represented and is to be carried out in the area of that coast protection board;\n(c) authorise or require any person—\n(i) to carry out any work of alteration, improvement, repair, maintenance, demolition or removal on any works constructed or maintainable by the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or an internal drainage board, or\n(ii) to carry out any work on land on which the sowing or planting of vegetation is carried out or vegetation is maintained by the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or an internal drainage board,\nunless the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or the internal drainage board consents or the work is done by, or under a scheme prepared by, a coast protection board on which the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or the internal drainage board is represented and is to be carried out in the area of that coast protection board;\n(d) authorise or require any person to carry out any work or do anything in contravention of the the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979; or\n(e) authorise or require any person to carry out any work of alteration, improvement, repair, maintenance, demolition or removal on any works constructed for the drainage of agricultural land in Scotland, unless the Secretary of State consents.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 47(a) repealed (E.W.) (6.4.2011) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), s. 324(3), Sch. 22 Pt. 2; S.I. 2011/556, art. 3(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15), s. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 47(b) repealed (E.W.) (6.4.2011) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), s. 324(3), Sch. 22 Pt. 2; S.I. 2011/556, art. 3(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 47(b) substituted by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), ss. 2, 109, 110(2), Sch. 4 para. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(b) substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 19 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Schs. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 47(c) substituted (E.W.) by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 11(7), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Water Resources Act 1963 (c. 38), Sch. 3 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(c)(i) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(c)(ii) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(2) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(c) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(3)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(c) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 11(3)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 47(d) repealed (E.W.) (6.4.2011) by Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (c. 23), s. 324(3), Sch. 22 Pt. 2; S.I. 2011/556, art. 3(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 (c. 46, SIF 3), s. 64(2), Sch. 4 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 125."
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:11.869147+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}