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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-18/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/23",
  "legislation_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Powers in relation to, and for, statutory undertakers",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 is amended in accordance with this paragraph.\n(2) In paragraph 1 (notice for extinguishment of rights of undertakers or for removal of their apparatus)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(3) In paragraph 2 (counter-notices)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(4) In paragraph 3 (effect of unopposed notice), in sub-paragraph (3), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(5) In paragraph 4 (opposed notices and Ministerial orders), in sub-paragraph (2), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(6) In paragraph 5 (opposed notices and Ministerial orders), in sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(7) In paragraph 6 (opposed notices and Ministerial orders), in sub-paragraph (3), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(8) In paragraph 7 (compensation), in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in the words after paragraph (b), after “by virtue of” insert “a notice served by that agency or authority under”.\n(9) In paragraph 9 (notices by undertakers to carry out works)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(10) In paragraph 10 (counter-notices)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (4), for “HCA’s objection” substitute “objection by the HCA or strategic authority outside London”.\n(11) In paragraph 13 (power to arrange for works to be done by the HCA)—\n(a) in the heading, omit “by the HCA”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), for “arrange with the HCA for the works to be carried out by the HCA” substitute “arrange with the HCA or strategic authority outside London for the works to be carried out that agency or authority”.\n(12) In paragraph 14 (compensation), in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) after “by virtue of” insert “a notice served on that agency or authority under”.\n(13) In paragraph 16 (ministerial order following representations by statutory undertakers)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (4)(a), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (5), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”.\n(14) In paragraph 17 (ministerial order following representations by the HCA)—\n(a) in the heading, after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”.\n(15) In paragraph 18 (examples of contents of orders), in sub-paragraph (2)(a), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”.\n(16) In paragraph 20 (notification of proposal to make order)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(17) In paragraph 23 (duty to give opportunity to appear), in sub-paragraph (2)(a), after “HCA” insert “or strategic authority outside London”.\n(18) In paragraph 28 (orders to relieve obligations), in sub-paragraph (4)(a), after “HCA” insert “or a strategic authority outside London”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 12 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 108(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/18/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:57.197615+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."
}