PART 3POWERS OF ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION OF LAND

Supplementary

Statutory undertakers31

1

Subject to the provisions of article 22(2) (compulsory acquisition of rights), Schedule 13 (protective provisions) and paragraph (2), TfL may—

a

exercise the powers conferred by articles 19 (compulsory acquisition of land) and 22 (compulsory acquisition of rights) in relation to so much of the Order land as belongs to statutory undertakers; and

b

extinguish the rights of, remove or reposition the apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers over or within the Order land.

2

Paragraph (1)(b) has no effect in relation to apparatus in respect of which the following provisions apply—

a

Part 3 (street works in England and Wales) of the 1991 Act; or

b

article 32 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).