PART 5 E+W+SPOWERS OF ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION

Statutory undertakersE+W+S

34.—(1) Subject to the provisions of Schedule 11 (protective provisions), article 26 (compulsory acquisition of rights and restrictive covenants) and paragraph (2), the undertaker may—

(a)acquire compulsorily, or acquire new rights or impose restrictive covenants over any Order land belonging to statutory undertakers; and

(b)extinguish the rights of, or remove or reposition apparatus belonging to, statutory undertakers over or within the Order land.

(2) Paragraph (1)(b) has no effect in relation to apparatus in respect of which the following provisions apply—

(a)Part 3 of the 1991 Act; and

(b)article 35 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets) of this Order.

Commencement Information

I1Art. 34 in force at 9.2.2021, see art. 1