London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2013

18 Duties to consult or obtain consent of other authorities

(1) A London authority shall not exercise any power conferred by section 16(1) unless they have consulted any authority other than themselves who are a local planning authority, as defined in the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for the area in which they propose to exercise the power.

(2) An authorised person shall not provide or operate charging apparatus in accordance with a permission given under section 16(2) unless the authorised person has consulted any authority (other than the London authority who gave the permission) who are a local planning authority for the area to which the proposed permission relates.

(3) Consultation carried out by an authorised person before that person was given a permission under section 16(2) counts as consultation for the purposes of subsection (2).

(4) Where a highway to which this Part of this Act applies is maintained by a relevant railway undertaker, a London authority shall not exercise any power conferred by section 16(1) or grant a permission in relation to it under section 16(2) except with the consent of the relevant railway undertaker.

(5) In this section, “relevant railway undertaker” means—

(a) Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;

(b) London Underground Limited; or

(c) any of their subsidiaries (within the meaning given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006).