# Water (Scotland) Act 1980, Paragraph 18: Undertakers not exempted from liability for injury to mines.


Nothing in the special Act shall exempt the undertakers from liability to any action or other legal proceeding to which they would have been liable in respect of any damage or injury done or occasioned to any mines by means, or in consequence, of their waterworks, if those works had been constructed or maintained otherwise than by virtue of the special Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/45/schedule/4/paragraph/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-scotland-act-1980/schedule-4/paragraph-18
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