The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016

Street works

10.—(1) The undertaker may, for the purposes of the authorised development, enter upon so much of any of the streets specified in column (2) of Schedule 5 (streets subject to street works) as is within the Order limits and may—

(a)break up or open the street, or any sewer, drain or tunnel within or under it;

(b)tunnel or bore under the street;

(c)remove or use all earth and materials in or under the street;

(d)place and keep apparatus in the street;

(e)maintain apparatus in the street or change its position;

(f)execute any works required for or incidental to any works referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e).

(2) The authority given by paragraph (1) is a statutory right for the purposes of sections 48(3) (streets, street works and undertakers) and 51(1) (prohibition of unauthorised street works) of the 1991 Act.

(3) The powers conferred in paragraphs (1) and (2) are without limitation on the powers of the undertaker under the Electricity Act 1989(1).

(4) In this article “apparatus” has the meaning given in Part 3 of the 1991 Act.