PART 5POWERS OF ACQUISITION
Rights under or over streets25.
(1)
The Secretary of State may enter on and appropriate so much of the subsoil of, or air-space over, any street within the Order limits as may be required for the purposes of the authorised development and may use the subsoil or air-space for those purposes or any other purpose ancillary to the authorised development.
(2)
Subject to paragraph (3), the Secretary of State may exercise any power conferred by paragraph (1) in relation to a street without being required to acquire any part of the street or any easement or right in the street.
(3)
Paragraph (2) does not apply in relation to—
(a)
any subway or underground building; or
(b)
any cellar, vault, arch or other construction in, on or under a street which forms part of a building fronting onto the street.
(4)
Subject to paragraph (5), any person who is an owner or occupier of land in respect of which the power of appropriation conferred by paragraph (1) is exercised without the Secretary of State acquiring any part of that person’s interest in the land, and who suffers loss as a result, is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(5)
Compensation is not payable under paragraph (4) to any person who is an undertaker to whom section 85 of the 1991 Act (sharing cost of necessary measures) applies in respect of measures of which the allowable costs are to be borne in accordance with that section.