The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016

Extinguishment of private rights and restrictive covenants relating to apparatus belonging to National Grid or WPD removed from land subject to temporary possession

24.—(1) This article applies to any Order land specified in Part 1 (National Grid) and Part 2 (WPD) of Schedule 8 (extinguishment of private rights and restrictive covenants relating to apparatus belonging to National Grid or WPD removed from land subject to temporary possession) and any other Order land of which National Grid takes temporary possession under article 29 (temporary use of land by National Grid) or WPD takes temporary possession under article 30 (temporary use of land by WPD).

(2) All private rights or restrictive covenants in relation to apparatus belonging to National Grid or WPD removed from any land to which this article applies are extinguished from the date on which National Grid or WPD gives up temporary possession of that land under article 29 or 30, as the case may be.

(3) The extinguishment of rights by paragraph (2) does not give rise to any cause of action relating to the presence on or in the land of any foundations (save for those which lie less than one metre underground) referred to in article 29(5)(c) and (6)(c) or 30(5)(c) and (6)(c) (National Grid and WPD not required to remove foundations when giving up temporary possession).