The Network Rail (Waverley Steps) Order 2010

Construction, maintenance and vesting of Work No. 2

9.—(1) Work No. 2 shall, unless otherwise agreed between Network Rail and the roads authority, be completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the roads authority.

(2) Following completion of Work No. 2, that work shall, unless otherwise agreed—

(a) between Network Rail and the roads authority under this article; or

(b) by agreement under article 38,

be maintained by and at the expense of Network Rail for a period of 12 months from its completion.

(3) On the date provided by paragraph (7), Work No. 2 shall by virtue of this article vest in the roads authority as a public road.

(4) Network Rail shall give the roads authority notice in writing with a certificate that Work No. 2 is complete.

(5) The roads authority may, within 21 days after such service, give Network Rail a counter-notice in writing that the notice is disputed on the ground that Work No. 2 is not complete.

(6) Any dispute as to—

(a) the completion of Work No. 2 (other than a dispute as to the date referred to in paragraph (7)(c)); or

(b) the appointment of a consultant for the purpose of paragraph (8),

shall be determined by arbitration, and the determination of the arbiter (or other person to whom the dispute is referred) shall be final and binding.

(7) Work No. 2 shall vest—

(a) 28 days after the service of notice under paragraph (4);

(b) on the date of a determination under paragraph (6) that Work No. 2 is complete; or

(c) on the date on which Network Rail complies with any conditions for completion that are specified in the determination,

whichever is the latest.

(8) A certificate issued by or on behalf of Network Rail as to the date on which Network Rail complied with any conditions of the sort referred to in paragraph (7)(c) together, if so requested by the roads authority, with a report from a consultant to be agreed between Network Rail and the roads authority confirming such compliance, shall for the purposes of this article be conclusive evidence of such compliance.

(9) Nothing in this article shall prejudice the operation of section 146 of the 1991 Act (which enables the local roads authority to declare that a road shall become a public road); and Network Rail shall not by reason of any duty under this article to maintain a road be taken to be the roads authority in relation to that road for the purposes of Part 4 of that Act.