Paragraph 9

In relation to authority’s works constituted by such operations as aforesaid references to the promoting authority in sections twenty-two to twenty-five of this Act and in Part I of this Schedule shall (except in the case of those mentioned in the succeeding sub-paragraph) be construed as references to the negotiating authority.

In relation to such authority’s works references in the following provisions to the promoting authority shall be construed as references to either or any of the authorities executing the operations in question, that is to say—

• subsection (3) of section twenty-two (as to a promoting authority’s power to waive observance of the requirements therein mentioned);

• subsection (1) of section twenty-three (as to the effect on the undertakers’ right to payment for works for remedying subsidence in circumstances in which such an authority were to blame); and

• sections twenty-four and twenty-five (as to the effect of enactments and agreements for regulating the relations between such an authority and the undertakers).