{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-68.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": "schedule/9/paragraph/68",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Apparatus in stopped up streets",
  "text": "(1) Where any street is stopped up under article 16 (permanent stopping up and restriction of use of streets and private means of access) and Wales & West Utilities has apparatus in the street, Wales & West Utilities shall have the same powers and rights in respect of that apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to Wales & West Utilities legal easements reasonably satisfactory to Wales & West Utilities in respect of such apparatus and access to it, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or of Wales & West Utilities to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 71 (removal of apparatus) or the power of the undertaker to carry out works under paragraph 73 (retained apparatus).\n(2) Regardless of the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers conferred by article 15 (temporary stopping up and restriction of use of streets), Wales & West Utilities is at liberty at all times upon giving reasonable notice to the undertaker save for in cases of emergency, to take all necessary access across any such stopped up highway and to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such highway as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that highway.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 68 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/schedule/9/paragraph/68",
    "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."
}