SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6E+W+S Roads with special engineering difficulties

Settlement of plan and section by arbitrationS

10(1)The duty of the [F1person to whom it falls, by virtue of regulations made under paragraph 2(1), to settle a dispute under that paragraph] is to settle a plan and section of works of the kind proposed, as works to be executed in the road.S

(2)He may require the undertaker to submit to him a plan and section in such form, require the relevant authority to submit to him such observations on a plan and section submitted to him, and require the undertaker or the relevant authority to furnish him with such information and to take such other steps, as appear to him to be requisite.

(3)He may treat compliance with any such requirement made of the undertaker as a condition of his proceeding with the settlement of a plan and section, and compliance with any such requirement made of the relevant authority as a condition of his settling a plan and section otherwise than as proposed by the undertaker.

11(1)Where the reference relates to the placing, altering or changing the position of apparatus in a road which is carried by or goes under a bridge, then, if the arbiter is satisfied—S

(a)that the execution of the works would be likely to affect injuriously the structure or stability of the bridge, and

(b)that it is not practicable to meet objection on that ground to the plan and section submitted,

he shall so declare, and shall not settle any plan and section of those works on the reference.

(2)This does not affect the right of the undertaker to submit another plan and section.