Part V Roads and Building Control
Footpaths, footways and verges
C164 Use of appliances etc. on footways, footpaths and cycle tracks.
1
No enactment prohibiting or restricting the use of footways, footpaths or cycle tracks shall affect the use of appliances or vehicles—
a
for the construction, maintenance, improvement or cleansing of a road;
b
subject to subsection (2) below, by statutory undertakers for works on footways, footpaths or cycle tracks maintainable by a roads authority, in connection with apparatus belonging to the statutory undertakers.
2
Statutory undertakers may exercise rights enjoyed by them by virtue of subsection (1)(b) above only if they have obtained the consent of the roads authority; and such consent may be subject to such reasonable conditions as the authority think fit.
3
In this section “statutory undertakers” includes an authority responsible for sewerage.