Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974

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Control of operations of statutory undertakers.

10.—(1) The powers conferred on any State authority or statutory undertaker by or under any enactment to excavate, lay down or erect any apparatus along, adjoining, in, on, under or over, any land shall not be exercised by that State authority or statutory undertaker in relation to any land comprised in a motorway otherwise than with the consent of the Minister.

(2) The Minister may grant or refuse his consent under this section to the operations of any State authority or statutory undertaker in relation to any land comprised in a motorway or he may grant his consent subject to such conditions or restrictions as seem to him to be necessary.