Article 7 Protective provision, and requirements for consent, in local Acts, orders, etc

(1)

Any protective provision in any local Act or in any order made under or confirmed by any Act for the benefit of an authority abolished by section 1(10) or 20(6) of the Act or their predecessors shall enure—

(a)

if the protection relates to a highway, for the benefit of the highway authority for the highway;

(b)

if the protection relates to any other matter transferred by or under the Act to any authority, for the benefit of that authority;

(c)

in any other case, for the benefit of the council of the district in which the matter to which the protection relates is situated,

and shall be construed as if a reference to the authority specified in (a), (b) or (c) were substituted for any reference to the authority named in the protective provision.

(2)

Any provision in any local Act or in any order made under or confirmed by any Act which requires the consent (whether it empowers the requirement of conditions or otherwise) of an authority abolished by section 1(10) or 20(6) of the Act or their predecessors shall have effect as if it had required the consent of (and in that event empowered the requirement of conditions by) the following authority, namely—

(a)

where the matter in respect of which the consent is required is a highway, the highway authority for the highway;

(b)

where the matter in respect of which the consent is required is any other matter transferred by or under the Act to any authority, that authority;

(c)

in any other case, the council of the district in which the matter in respect of which the consent is required is situated.

(3)

Paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to any provision in any local Act or in any order made under or confirmed by any Act in respect of which provision is made under section 254, as extended by section 262(8), or under section 262(8), of the Act.