SCHEDULES

C1SCHEDULE 6 Roads with special engineering difficulties

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Sch. 6 modified (28.11.1992) by S.I. 1992/2990, art. 3(2)

Procedure on submission of plan and section

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1

A relevant authority to whom there is submitted a plan and section of road works proposed to be executed in a road with special engineering difficulties shall give notice to the undertaker—

a

approving the plan and section without modification, or

b

objecting to them in form as being on too small a scale or giving insufficient particulars, or

c

approving them subject to modifications specified in the notice, or

d

disapproving them.

2

The notice shall be given without avoidable delay, and at the latest before the end of the period of—

a

7 working days in the case of a plan and section of works relating only to—

i

a service pipe or service line, or

ii

overhead electric lines or telecommunication apparatus, and

b

one month in any other case;

and as between the undertaker and a relevant authority who do not duly give notice before the end of that period, the plan and section as submitted shall be deemed to have been settled by agreement.

3

The reference in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i) to a service pipe or service line is to—

a

a pipe or line through or by means of which a supply of gas, electricity or water is afforded or intended to be afforded to premises—

i

directly from premises from which the supply originates, or

ii

from a main, that is, a pipe or line for affording a general supply;

b

a pipe through or by means of which sewerage services are afforded, or intended to be afforded, which is not a sewer vested in a local authority; or

c

underground telecommunication apparatus for the purpose of providing a service by means of a telecommunication system to or from particular premises (as opposed to apparatus for the general purposes of such a system).

But so much of any such pipe, line or apparatus as is placed, or intended to be placed, for a continuous length of 100 metres or more in a public road shall be treated as not being a service pipe or service line.

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In this paragraph—

  • electric line” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M1Electricity Act 1989;

  • telecommunication apparatus” has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the M2Telecommunications Act 1984; and

  • telecommunication system” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of that Act (read with subsection (2) of that section).