Paragraph 1 I1

The following provisions shall apply for the protection of the drainage authority unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the drainage authority.

In this Part of this Schedule—

• “construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and “construct” and “constructed” shall be construed accordingly;

• “drainage authority” means the Environment Agency;

• “drainage work” means any watercourse and includes any land which provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring;

• “the fishery” means any waters containing fish and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;

• “plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;

• “specified work” means so much of the authorised development as is in, on, under, over or within 16 metres of a drainage work or is otherwise likely to affect any drainage work;

• “watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer.