# The Network Rail (Church Fenton Level Crossing Reduction) Order 2024, Paragraph 17


(1) The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule apply for the protection of the drainage board unless otherwise agreed in writing between Network Rail and the drainage board.
(2) In this Part of this Schedule—
“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and “construct” and “constructed” are to be construed accordingly;
“drainage work” means any watercourse and includes any land which provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any ordinary watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage or flood defence;
“drainage board” means in relation to an ordinary watercourse, Selby Area Internal Drainage Board being the drainage board concerned within the meaning of section 23 (prohibition on obstruction etc. in watercourses) of the Land Drainage Act 1991;
“ordinary watercourse” has the meaning given by section 72 (interpretation) of the Land Drainage Act 1991;
“plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements; and
“specified work” means any of the following works carried out in relation to or which may affect any ordinary watercourse—
(a) erecting any mill dam, weir or other like obstruction to the flow of the watercourse, or raising or otherwise altering any such obstruction;
(b) erecting a culvert in the watercourse; or
(c) altering a culvert in a manner that would be likely to affect the flow of the watercourse; or
(d) altering, removing or replacing a structure or feature designated by the drainage authority under Schedule 1 (risk management: designation of features) to the Flood and Water Management Act 2010.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/526/schedule/11/paragraph/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-church-fenton-level-crossing-reduction-order-2024/schedule-11/paragraph-17
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