# Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 (repealed 1.1.1993), Paragraph 8

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Where two or more operations each being authority’s works are executed in connection with each other on the same occasion by different authorities, those operations shall be treated for the purposes of sections twenty-two to twenty-five of this Act and Part I of this Schedule as together constituting the authority’s works.
(2) In relation to authority’s works constituted by such operations as aforesaid, the obligations and rights of a promoting authority under the said sections and Part I of this Schedule to or against the undertakers shall be in one only of the authorities executing the operations in question (hereinafter referred to as the negotiating authority), and the negotiating authority shall be such one of them as may be selected by agreement between them, or, in default of agreement—
(a) if a road alteration is included and is not one executed only because it is made necessary by another of the operations, the authority executing the road alteration, or
(b) otherwise, the authority executing the other operation, or, if the operations include or consist of two or more other operations, such one of the authorities executing them as the Minister may select,
and a notice under paragraph 2 of this Schedule shall not be given until the negotiating authority has been selected, and a notice given thereunder shall state what authority is to be the negotiating authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14/39/schedule/FOURTH/paragraph/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-utilities-street-works-act-1950-repealed-111993/schedule-FOURTH/paragraph-8
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