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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-55",
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  "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": "schedule/9/paragraph/55",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "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 (West Midlands) plc (company number 03600574) 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;\n“undertaker” means Gloucestershire County Council or such other person as has the benefit of the Order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 55 in force at 25.6.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 29. The definition of “electricity plant” (in section 64) was amended by paragraphs 24 and 38(1) and (3) of Schedule 6 to the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/795/schedule/9/paragraph/55",
    "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."
}