{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-huyton-order-2014/schedule-8/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-huyton-order-2014/schedule-8/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2027",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (Huyton) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-huyton-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (4), if as the result of the authorised works or their construction, or of any subsidence resulting from any of those works—\n(a) any damage is caused to any electronic communications apparatus belonging to an operator (other than apparatus the repair of which is not reasonably necessary in view of its intended removal for the purposes of those works), or other property of an operator; or\n(b) there is any interruption in the supply of the service provided by an operator,\nNetwork Rail must bear and pay the cost reasonably incurred by that operator in making good such damage or restoring the supply and must—\n(i) make reasonable compensation to that operator for loss sustained by it; and\n(ii) indemnify that operator against claims, demands, proceedings, costs, damages and expenses which may be made or taken against, or recovered from, or incurred by, that operator by reason, or in consequence of, any such damage or interruption.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to—\n(a) any electronic communications apparatus in respect of which the relations between Network Rail and the operator are regulated by the provisions of Part 3 of the 1991 Act; or\n(b) any damage, or any interruption, caused by electro-magnetic interference arising from the construction or use of the authorised works.\n(3) Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) imposes any liability on Network Rail with respect to any damage or interruption to the extent that it is attributable to the act, neglect or default of an operator, its officers, servants, contractors or agents.\n(4) An operator must give Network Rail reasonable notice of any such claim or demand and no settlement or compromise of the claim or demand must be made without the consent of Network Rail which, if it withholds such consent, must have the sole conduct of any settlement or compromise or of any proceedings necessary to resist the claim or demand.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 3 in force at 19.8.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2027/schedule/8/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:46.124352+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."
}