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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-werrington-grade-separation-order-2018/schedule-12/paragraph-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/923",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (Werrington Grade Separation) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-werrington-grade-separation-order-2018",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/26",
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  "number": "26",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Without affecting the other provisions of this Part of this Schedule, Network Rail must indemnify the drainage authority from all claims, demands, proceedings, costs, damages, expenses or loss, which may be made or taken against, recovered from, or incurred by, the drainage authority by reason of—\n(a) any damage to any drainage work so as to impair its efficiency for the purposes of flood defence;\n(b) any damage to the fishery;\n(c) any raising or lowering of the water table in land adjoining the authorised development or any sewers, drains and watercourses;\n(d) any flooding or increased flooding of any such lands, or\n(e) inadequate water quality in any watercourse or other surface waters or in any groundwater,\nwhich is caused by the construction of any of the specified works or any act or omission of Network Rail, its contractors, agents or employees whilst engaged upon the work.\n(2) The drainage authority must give to Network Rail reasonable notice of any such claim or demand and no settlement or compromise may be made without the agreement of Network Rail, but such agreement must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/923/schedule/12/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:46.870439+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."
}