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Article 37 Statutory undertakers and electronic communications code network operatorsI1

England and Wales

(1)

Subject to Schedule 16 (protective provisions) and paragraph (2), the undertaker may—

(a)

exercise the powers conferred by articles 24 (compulsory acquisition of land) and 27 (compulsory acquisition of rights or imposition of covenants) in relation to so much of the Order land as belongs to statutory undertakers; and

(b)

extinguish the rights of, remove or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers over or within the Order land.

(2)

Paragraph (1)(b) has no effect in relation to apparatus in respect of which the following provisions apply—

(a)

Part 3 (street works in England and Wales) of the 1991 Act; or

(b)

article 42 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Art. 37 in force at 5.12.2022, see art. 1