Support of buildings
5(1)Paragraphs 2 to 4 apply in relation to—
(a)any apparatus belonging to a utility undertaker, and
(b)a relevant pipe-line belonging to a person other than a utility undertaker,
as they apply in relation to a building, subject to the modifications specified in sub-paragraph (2).
(2)Those modifications are that—
(a)references to the owners and occupiers of a building are to be read as references to the owner of the apparatus or pipe-line;
(b)references to land adjacent to a building are to be read, in the case of apparatus or a pipe-line situated below the surface of the ground, as including land above the site of the apparatus or pipe-line;
(c)paragraph 2(7) applies as if the reference to placing or leaving equipment or material in, next to or under the building or on or under land in the vicinity of the building were to placing and leaving equipment or material on any land above, next to or below the site of the apparatus or pipe-line, or on or under land in the vicinity of that site.
(3)In this paragraph, “relevant pipe-line” means—
(a)a cross-country pipe-line (within the meaning of the Pipe-lines Act 1962), and
(b)a local pipe-line (within the meaning of that Act) in relation to the construction of which a direction under section 6 of that Act has or had effect.