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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-thameslink-2000-order-2006/schedule-10/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3117",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (Thameslink 2000) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-thameslink-2000-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the protection of the several undertakers referred to in this Part of this Schedule the following provisions shall, unless otherwise agreed in writing between Network Rail and the undertaker concerned, have effect.\n(2) In this Part of this Schedule—\n“adequate alternative apparatus” means alternative apparatus adequate to enable the undertaker in question to fulfil its statutory functions in a manner not less efficient than previously;\n“apparatus” means—\n(a) in the case of an electricity undertaker, electric lines or electrical plant (as defined in the Electricity Act 1989) belonging to or maintained by that undertaker; or\n(b) in the case of a gas or water undertaker, any mains, pipes or other apparatus belonging to or maintained by such undertaker;\n(not being, except in paragraph 2, apparatus in respect of which the relations between Network Rail and the undertaker in question are regulated by the provisions of Part 3 of the Street Works Act) and includes any structure for the lodging therein of apparatus or for giving access to apparatus;\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” includes sections and method statements; and\n“undertaker” means any person authorised to carry on, in any area within which Network Rail are by this Order authorised to purchase land or execute works, an undertaking for the supply of water or the supply, transportation or storage of gas or for the generation, transmission or supply of electricity; and, in relation to any apparatus, means the undertaker to whom it belongs or by whom it is maintained.\n(3) The provisions of Schedule 9 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers etc.) to this Order shall not apply in relation to apparatus to which this Part of this Schedule applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/3163",
      "affecting_title": "The Network Rail (Thameslink) (Land Acquisition) Order 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}