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PUBLIC HEALTH (IRELAND) ACT 1878 - SECT 281

Construction of schedules.

281. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorise any [district
council]

(1)To use, injure, or interfere with any sluices, floodgates, sewers, groynes
or sea defences, or other works already or hereafter made under the authority
of any commissioners of sewers appointed by the Crown, or any sewers or other
works already or hereafter made and used by any body of persons or person for
the purpose of draining, preserving or improving land under any local or
private Act of Parliament, or for the purpose of irrigating land; or

(2)To disturb or interfere with any lands or other property vested in the
[Secretary of State for Defence] for the time being; or

(3)To interfere with any river, canal, dock, harbour, lock, reservoir, or
basin, so as to injuriously affect the navigation thereon, or the use thereof,
or to interfere with any towing-path so as to interrupt the traffic thereof,
in cases where any body of persons or person are or is by virtue of any Act of
Parliament entitled to navigate on or use such river, canal, dock, harbour,
lock, reservoir, or basin, or to receive any tolls or dues in respect of the
navigation thereon or use thereof; or

(4)To interfere with any watercourse in such manner as to injuriously affect
the supply of water to any river, canal, dock, harbour, reservoir, or basin,
in cases where any such body of persons or person as last aforesaid would, if
this Act had not been passed, have been entitled by law to prevent or be
relieved against such interference; or

(5)To interfere with any bridges crossing any river, canal, dock, harbour, or
basin, in cases where any body of persons or person are or is authorised by
virtue of any Act of Parliament to navigate or use such river, canal, dock,
harbour, or basin, or to demand any tolls or dues in respect of the navigation
thereon or use thereof; or

(6)To execute any works in, through, or under any wharves, quays, docks,
harbours, or basins, to the exclusive use of which any body of persons or
person are or is entitled by virtue of any Act of Parliament, or for the use
of which any body of persons or person are or is entitled by virtue of any Act
of Parliament to demand any tolls or dues,

Saving for works and property of certain authorities, and for navigation and
water rights, &c.



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