{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m54-to-m6-link-road-development-consent-order-2022/schedule-9/paragraph-51",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/475",
  "legislation_title": "The M54 to M6 Link Road Development Consent Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m54-to-m6-link-road-development-consent-order-2022",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/51",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part of this Schedule—\n“alternative apparatus” means alternative apparatus adequate to enable WPD 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 WPD in order to permit or authorise a diversion and to permit or authorise WPD 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 WPD;\n“diversion” means an alteration to the WPD 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“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“WPD” means Western Power Distribution (West Midlands) plc (company number 03600574) whose registered office is at Avonbank, Feeder Road, Bristol, BS2 0TB;\n“WPD Network” means WPD’s distribution network operated pursuant to its distribution licence issued pursuant to section 6 of the Electricity Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 29. The definition of “electrical plant” (in section 64) was amended by section 108 of, and paragraphs 24 and 38(1) and (3) of Schedule 6 to the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 6 was amended by section 30 of the Utilities Act 2000, sections 89(3), 136(1) and (2), 145(5), (6) and (7) and 198(2) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 19 and Part 1 of Schedule 23 to the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), section 121(5)(c) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Energy Act 2011 (c. 16), S.I 2011/2704 and S.I. 2012/2400."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/475/schedule/9/paragraph/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:00:49.770182+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."
}