The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) Order 1998

Power to keep apparatus in streets

9.—(1) The undertaker may, for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, maintenance and use of the authorised transit system, place and maintain in any street in which the transit system is or is to be laid and in any street having a junction with such a street any work, equipment or apparatus including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, foundations, platforms, road islands, substations, electric lines and any electrical or other apparatus.

(2) In this article—

(a) “apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part III of the 1991 Act,

(b) “electric line” has the meaning given by section 64(1) of the Electricity Act 1989(1), and

(c) the reference to any work, equipment, apparatus or other thing in a street includes a reference to any work, equipment, apparatus or other thing under, over, along or upon the street.

(1)

1989 c. 29.