{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-tyne-tunnels-order-2005/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-tyne-tunnels-order-2005/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2222",
  "legislation_title": "The River Tyne (Tunnels) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-tyne-tunnels-order-2005",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Additional powers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to Part 3 of Schedule 10 to this Order but otherwise without prejudice to the other powers conferred by this Order or otherwise available to it, the undertaker may within the tunnel area for the purpose of or in connection with the carrying out and maintenance of the authorised works to be carried out within the tunnel area and notwithstanding any interference thereby with any public or private rights—\n(a) alter, relocate or replace any tidal work,\n(b) carry out excavations and clearance, dredging, deepening, dumping and pumping operations,\n(c) subject to article 48, sell, use, appropriate and dispose of any materials (including liquids) obtained by it in carrying out any such operations,\n(d) remove or relocate any mooring,\n(e) remove and relocate any vessel or structure sunk, stranded or abandoned or moored or left (whether lawfully or not),\n(f) temporarily moor or anchor vessels and structures,\n(g) temporarily alter, interfere with, occupy and use the banks, bed, foreshores, waters and walls of the River Tyne and Howdon Basin, and\n(h) construct, place, maintain and remove temporary works and structures,\nin such manner and to such extent as may appear to it to be necessary or convenient.\n(2) Except in the case of urgency, the undertaker will use reasonable endeavours to notify the owner of any mooring and the owner or master of any vessel or structure affected by the proposal to exercise the powers of paragraph (1)(d) or (e) before the exercise of that power.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 17 in force at 26.8.2005, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2222/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:54:14.602868+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."
}