# Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 (repealed 1.1.1993), Paragraph 4

Extent: E+W+S

When any undertakers entitled as aforesaid have duly given a notice under the last preceding paragraph, the authority shall give notice to the undertakers without avoidable delay either accepting the undertakers’ notice as a specification of works and measures to be treated at the instance of the undertakers as necessary for the purposes aforesaid as respects relevant apparatus of theirs, or objecting to it, and—
(a) if the authority do not so give notice within twenty-nine days from the date on which the undertakers’ notice was given, the authority shall be deemed to have accepted it as aforesaid;
(b) if the authority do so give notice objecting to the undertaker’s notice, such a specification may be settled by agreement between the authority and the undertakers, or, in default of agreement, the undertakers or the authority may refer the matter to arbitration and the arbitratorarbiter shall (unless he determines that none of the works or measures claimed ought to be so treated) settle a specification of the works and measures to be so treated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/39/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-utilities-street-works-act-1950-repealed-111993/schedule-FOURTH/paragraph-4
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