Article 27 Statutory undertakersI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

Subject to the provisions of article 20(3) (compulsory acquisition of rights), Schedule 8 (protective provisions) and paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may—

(a)

acquire compulsorily, or acquire new rights or impose restrictive covenants over any Order land belonging to statutory undertakers;

(b)

extinguish the rights of, remove or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers over or within the Order land.

(2)

Paragraph (1)(b) has no effect in relation to apparatus in respect of which the following provisions apply—

(a)

Part 3 of the 1991 Act (street works in England and Wales); and

(b)

article 28 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 27 in force at 18.9.2014, see art. 1