Rights under streets
22.—(1) The Company may enter upon and appropriate so much of the subsoil of any street shown within the limits as may be required for the purposes of the authorised works and may use the subsoil for those purposes or any other purpose connected with or ancillary to its railway undertaking.
(2) The power under paragraph (1) above may be exercised in relation to a street without the Company being required to acquire any part of the street or any easement or right in the street.
(3) Any person, who is an owner or occupier of land in which the power of appropriation conferred by paragraph (1) above is exercised without the Company acquiring any part of that person’s interest in the land and who suffers loss by the exercise of that power, shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part I of the 1961 Act.
(4) Paragraph (2) above shall not apply in relation to—
(a)any subway or underground building; or
(b)any cellar, vault, arch or other construction in or on a street which forms part of a building fronting onto the street.