Maintenance of raised river or sea defencesE+W
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8.—(1) The maintenance of raised river or sea defences.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are—
(a)the maintenance works use materials of the same kind as those present in the raised defences and do not alter the shape of those defences or the overall height of the protection afforded by those defences,
(b)the raised defences are carrying out the functions for which they were originally designed, and
(c)the works do not disturb the bed or, up to normal ground level, the banks of the main river.