{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-hitchin-cambridge-junction-order-2011/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-hitchin-cambridge-junction-order-2011/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1072",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (Hitchin (Cambridge Junction)) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-hitchin-cambridge-junction-order-2011",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Power to construct and maintain works",
  "text": "(1) Network Rail may construct and maintain the scheduled works.\n(2) Subject to article 6 (power to deviate), the scheduled works may only be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the works and land plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the sections.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (6), Network Rail may carry out and maintain such of the following works as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or for purposes ancillary to, the construction of the scheduled works, namely—\n(a) railway electrification and signalling works;\n(b) works to erect and construct such offices and other buildings, yards, machinery, plant, apparatus, and other works, and conveniences as Network Rail thinks fit;\n(c) works to construct, provide and maintain all such embankments, viaducts, aprons, abutments, retaining walls, wing walls, culverts and other works as may be necessary or convenient;\n(d) works required for the strengthening, improvement, maintenance or reconstruction of any street;\n(e) works required for the strengthening, altering or demolition of any building or structure;\n(f) works to alter the position of any street furniture or apparatus, including mains, sewers, drains, pipes, cables and lights;\n(g) works to alter the course of, or otherwise interfere with, a watercourse other than a navigable watercourse;\n(h) landscaping, ecological and other works to mitigate any adverse effects of the construction, maintenance or operation of the authorised works; and\n(i) replacement facilities and works for the benefit or protection of land or premises affected by the other authorised works.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (6), Network Rail may carry out such other works (of whatever nature) as may be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or for purposes ancillary to, the construction of the scheduled works, other than works which would interfere with a navigable watercourse.\n(5) Network Rail may remove any works constructed by it pursuant to this Order which have been constructed as temporary works or which it no longer requires.\n(6) Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall only authorise the carrying out or maintenance of works within the Order limits.\n(7) The scheduled works may be constructed and maintained under the powers conferred by this article regardless of anything done pursuant to Part 1 of, or Schedule 2 to, the Commons Act 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 21.4.2011, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 26."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1072/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:09:28.117561+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."
}