Article 42 Statutory undertakers

(1)

Subject to the provisions of Schedule 19 (Protective provisions), the undertaker may—

(a)

acquire compulsorily the land belonging to statutory undertakers within the Order limits and described in the Book of Reference;

(b)

acquire existing rights, create and acquire new rights and impose restrictive covenants over the land belonging to statutory undertakers within the Order limits and described in the Book of Reference;

(c)

extinguish or suspend the rights of, remove, alter, renew, relocate or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers over or within the Order limits; and

(d)

construct the authorised development in such a way as to interfere with any highway or cross underneath or over apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers and other like bodies within the Order limits.

(2)

Subject to the provisions of Schedule 19 (Protective provisions), the undertaker may for the purposes of article 14 (street works) remove or reposition apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers which is laid beneath any of the streets specified in Schedule 9 (Streets subject to street works).