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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a46-newark-bypass-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-75",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1090",
  "legislation_title": "The A46 Newark Bypass Development Consent Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a46-newark-bypass-development-consent-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/75",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Schedule—\n“alternative apparatus” means alternative apparatus adequate to enable NGED to fulfil its statutory functions in a manner not less efficient than previously and, where the context requires, includes any part of such alternative apparatus;\n“alternative rights” means all and any necessary legal easements, leases, consents or permissions required by NGED in order to permit or authorise a diversion and to permit or authorise NGED to lay, keep, operate, maintain, adjust, repair, alter, relay, renew, supplement, inspect, examine, test and remove the alternative apparatus;\n“apparatus” means electric lines or electrical plant as defined in the Electricity Act 1989 belonging to or maintained by NGED;\n“diversion” means an alteration to the NGED Network in order to enable or facilitate the authorised development;\n“functions” includes powers and duties;\n“in”, in a context referring to apparatus or alternative apparatus in land, includes a reference to apparatus or alternative apparatus under, over or upon land;\n“NGED” means National Grid Electricity Distribution (East Midlands) plc (company number 02366923) whose registered office is at Avonbank, Feeder Road, Bristol, BS2 0TB;\n“NGED Network” means NGED’s distribution network operated pursuant to its distribution licence issued pursuant to section 6 (licences authorising supply, etc.) of the Electricity Act 1989;\n“plan” or “plans” includes all designs, drawings, specifications, method statements, programmes, calculations, risk assessments and other documents that are reasonably necessary to properly and sufficiently describe and assess the works to be executed;\n“specified work” means so much of any of the authorised development that is carried out within 6 metres of any apparatus; and\nother terms have the meaning given in article 2 (interpretation).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 75 in force at 22.10.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 29. The definition of “electrical plant” (in section 64) was amended by paragraphs 24 and 38(1) and (3) of Schedule 6 to the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 6 was amended by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27), sections 136(1) and (2) and 145(5), (6) and (7) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 19 and Part 1 of Schedule 23 to, the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 to the Climate Change Act 2008 (c. 27, paragraph 1(3)(a) and (b) of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Energy (Financing) Act 2022 (c. 15), sections 166(4) to (9) and 186(7) to (9) of the Energy Act 2023 (c. 52) and S.I. 2012/2400."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1090/schedule/9/paragraph/75",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:46.575852+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}