{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/795",
  "legislation_title": "The M5 Junction 10 Development Consent Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Consent to transfer benefit of Order",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker may—\n(a) transfer to another person (“the transferee”) any or all of the benefit of the provisions of this Order, including those relating to compulsory acquisition, and such related statutory rights as may be agreed between the undertaker and the transferee; or\n(b) grant to another person (“the lessee”) for a period agreed between the undertaker and the lessee any or all of the benefit of the provisions of this Order, including those relating to compulsory acquisition, and such related statutory rights as may be so agreed.\n(2) Where an agreement has been made in accordance with paragraph (1), references in this Order to the undertaker, except in paragraph (3), include references to the transferee or the lessee.\n(3) The exercise by a person of any benefits or rights conferred in accordance with any transfer or grant under paragraph (1) is subject to the same restrictions, liabilities and obligations as would apply under this Order if those benefits or rights were exercised by the undertaker.\n(4) If the benefit of the provisions of this Order relating to compulsory acquisition is transferred or granted to a transferee or lessee pursuant to this article and the transferee or lessee exercises those powers then the undertaker is liable to the transferee or lessee for any compensation that is payable to another party as a consequence of the exercise of those powers by the transferee or lessee.\n(5) The consent of the Secretary of State is required for a transfer or grant under this article, except where the transfer or grant is made to—\n(a) Gigaclear Limited (company number 07476617, whose registered office is at Building One, Wyndyke Furlong, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX14 1UQ) for the purposes of undertaking Work Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11;\n(b) Openreach Limited (company number 10690039, whose registered office is at 6 Gracechurch Street, London, United Kingdom, EC3V 0AT) for the purposes of undertaking Work Nos. 27 to 34;\n(c) Severn Trent Water Limited (company number 02366686, whose registered office is at Severn Trent Centre, 2 St John’s Street, Coventry, CV1 2LZ) for the purposes of undertaking Work Nos. 14 and 15;\n(d) Wales & West Utilities Limited (company number 05046791, whose registered office is at Wales & West House, Spooner Close Coedkernew, Newport, South Wales, NP10 8FZ) for the purposes of undertaking Work Nos. 16, 17, 18 and 35;\n(e) National Grid Electricity Distribution (West Midlands) PLC (company number 03600574, whose registered office is at Avonbank, Feeder Road, Bristol, BS2 0TB) for the purposes of undertaking Work Nos. 19 to 26; or\n(f) Zayo Group UK Limited (company number 03726666, whose registered office is at 4th Floor – the Relay Building 114 Whitechapel High Street London E1 7PT) for the purposes of undertaking Work Nos. 12 and 13.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 10 in force at 25.6.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/795/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:57.234000+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."
}