1.—(1) Sections 271 to 274 of the 1990 Act (power to extinguish rights of statutory undertakers, etc. and power of statutory undertakers, etc. to remove or re-site apparatus) applies in relation to any land acquired or appropriated by the undertaker under this Order or over which the undertaker has acquired rights under article 20 of this Order subject to the following provisions of this paragraph; and all such other provisions of that Act as apply for the purposes of those provisions (including sections 275 to 278, which contain provisions consequential on the extinguishment of any rights under sections 271 and 272, and sections 279(2) to (4), 280 and 282, which provide for the payment of compensation) have effect accordingly.
(2) In the provisions of the 1990 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (1), references to the appropriate Minister are references to the Secretary of State or, in relation to water or sewerage undertakers, to the National Assembly.
(3) Where any apparatus of public utility undertakers or of a public communications provider is removed in pursuance of a notice or order given or made under section 271, 272 or 273 of the 1990 Act, as applied by sub-paragraph (1), any person who is the owner or occupier of premises to which a supply was given from that apparatus will be entitled to recover from the undertaker compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of effecting a connection between the premises and any other apparatus from which a supply is given.
(4) Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply in the case of the removal of a public sewer but where such a sewer is removed in pursuance of such a notice or order as is mentioned in that paragraph, any person who is the—
(a)owner or occupier of premises the drains of which communicated with that sewer; or
(b)owner of a private sewer which communicated with that sewer,
will be entitled to recover from the undertaker compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of making that person’s drain or sewer communicate with any other public sewer or with a private sewage disposal plant.
(5) The provisions of the 1990 Act mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), as applied by that sub-paragraph, do not have effect in relation to apparatus as respects which Part III of the Street Works Act applies.
(6) In this paragraph—
“the 1990 Act” (“Deddf 1990”) means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;
“public communications provider” (“darparwr cyfathrebu cyhoeddus”) has the same meaning as in section 151(1) of the Communications Act 2003(1); and
“public utility undertakers” (“ymgymerwyr cyfleusterau cyhoeddus”) has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980(2).
2. The powers conferred by this Order do not extend to authorising any acquisition of, or the making of a connection to, the existing electricity pylon without the consent of the licensed electricity undertaker in whom the pylon is vested from time to time.