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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Vesting and acquisition of land: supplementary provisions

Statutory undertakers

10(1)Before making an order under paragraph 9 the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister—

(a)shall afford to the statutory undertakers on whom notice was served under paragraph 9(1) an opportunity of objecting to the application for the order, and

(b)if any objection is made, shall consider the objection and afford to those statutory undertakers and to the agency on which the counter-notice was served an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister for the purpose,

and the Secretary of State and the appropriate Minister may then, if they think fit, make the order in accordance with the application either with or without modification.

(2)Where an order is made under paragraph 9—

(a)any right to which the order relates shall be extinguished at the end of the period specified in that behalf in the order, and

(b)if, at the end of the period so specified in relation to any apparatus, any requirement of the order as to the removal of the apparatus has not been complied with, the regional development agency concerned may remove the apparatus and dispose of it in any way it may think fit.