SCHEDULE 6 Roads with special engineering difficulties
Procedure on submission of plan and section
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(1)
A relevant authority to whom there is submitted a plan and section of road works proposed to be executed in a road with special engineering difficulties shall give notice to the undertaker—
(a)
approving the plan and section without modification, or
(b)
objecting to them in form as being on too small a scale or giving insufficient particulars, or
(c)
approving them subject to modifications specified in the notice, or
(d)
disapproving them.
(2)
The notice shall be given without avoidable delay, and at the latest before the end of the period of—
(a)
7 working days in the case of a plan and section of works relating only to—
(i)
a service pipe or service line, or
(ii)
overhead electric lines or F1electronic communications apparatus, and
(b)
one month in any other case;
and as between the undertaker and a relevant authority who do not duly give notice before the end of that period, the plan and section as submitted shall be deemed to have been settled by agreement.
(3)
The reference in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i) to a service pipe or service line is to—
(a)
a pipe or line through or by means of which a supply of gas, electricity or water is afforded or intended to be afforded to premises—
(i)
directly from premises from which the supply originates, or
(ii)
from a main, that is, a pipe or line for affording a general supply;
(b)
a pipe through or by means of which sewerage services are afforded, or intended to be afforded, which is not F2a public sewer; or
(c)
But so much of any such pipe, line or apparatus as is placed, or intended to be placed, for a continuous length of 100 metres or more in a public road shall be treated as not being a service pipe or service line.
(4)
In this paragraph—
“electric line” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M1Electricity Act 1989;
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