Statutory undertakers
31.—(1) Subject to the provisions of article 22(2) (compulsory acquisition of rights and restrictive covenants), Schedule 9 (protective provisions) and paragraph (2), the undertaker may—
(a)exercise the powers conferred by article 19 (compulsory acquisition of land) and article 22 (compulsory acquisition of rights and restrictive covenants) in relation to so much of the Order land belonging to statutory undertakers; and
(b)extinguish the rights of, remove or reposition the 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 (street works in England and Wales) of the 1991 Act; or
(b)article 32 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).