Paragraph 22

Section sixty-one (which relates to the protection of certain public undertakings) shall be amended as follows.

In subsection (1) after the words with the consent of the undertakers ", and in subsection (2) after the words " with the consent of the railway company ", there shall be inserted the words

“(which may be given subject to reasonable conditions but shall not be unreasonably withheld).”

At the end of subsection (1) there shall be added the following paragraph:—

“(e)

the undertakings of Area Boards (within the meaning of the Gas Act, 1948) and the undertaking of the National Coal Board”.

In subsection (3) after the word " aforesaid " there shall be inserted the words

“or whether any consent is being unreasonably withheld or whether any condition subject to which any consent was given was reasonable”.

The references in the said section sixty-one to the Act of 1930 shall be construed as including references to section forty-six of this Act.