PART 2WORKS PROVISIONS

Streets

Power to keep apparatus in streets11

1

The Authority may, for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, maintenance and use of the authorised street tramway, place and maintain in any street in which the tramway is or is to be laid or in any other street any work, equipment or apparatus including, without limitation on the scope of that power, foundations, platforms, road islands, substations, electric lines and any electrical or other apparatus.

2

The powers conferred by this article must not be exercised within the boundaries of a street outside of the Order limits and the limits of deviation without the consent of the street authority, but such consent must not be unreasonably withheld.

3

In this article—

a

“apparatus” has the same meaning as in Part 3 (street works in England and Wales) of the 1991 Act; and

b

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.