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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-water-utilities-limited-thames-tideway-tunnel-order-2014/article-42",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2384",
  "legislation_title": "The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-water-utilities-limited-thames-tideway-tunnel-order-2014",
  "path": "article/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Statutory undertakers",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker may—\n(a) (further to the power in article 28 (compulsory acquisition of land)) acquire compulsorily the order land belonging to statutory undertakers, and described in the book of reference;\n(b) extinguish the rights of, remove or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers where such apparatus is anywhere within the Order limits notwithstanding that repositioning may be outside of the Order limits; and\n(c) (further to the power in article 29 (compulsory acquisition of rights)) acquire compulsorily the new rights over land belonging to statutory undertakers described in the book of reference and indicated on the land plans.\n(2) Schedule 16 (provision for the protection of specified undertakers) applies to the power in article 42(1).\n(3) Without prejudice to article 42(1)(b) the following provisions (4) and (5) shall apply in relation to apparatus of statutory undertakers not falling within article 42(1)(b).\n(4) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, sections 271 to 274 of the 1990 Act (power to extinguish rights of statutory undertakers, etc and power of statutory undertakers etc to remove or re-site apparatus) shall apply in relation to land falling outside of the Order limits where it is necessary for the purposes of the authorised project to extinguish the rights of statutory undertakers or to remove or reposition the apparatus belonging to the statutory undertakers, and all such other provisions of that Act as apply for the purposes of those provisions (including sections 275 to 278, which contain provisions consequential to the extinguishment of any rights under sections 271 and 272, and sections 279(2) to (4), 280 and 282, which provide for the payment of compensation) shall have effect accordingly.\n(5) In the provisions of the 1990 Act as applied by paragraph (4), references to the appropriate Minister are references to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 42(5) substituted (17.3.2015) by The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) (Correction) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/723), art. 1, Sch. Table 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 42 in force at 24.9.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2384/article/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:40.087761+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."
}