PART 5POWERS OF ACQUISITION AND POSSESSION
Statutory undertakers31
1
Subject to the provisions of article 23 (compulsory acquisition of rights and imposition of restrictive covenants), Schedule 9 (protective provisions) and paragraph (2), the undertaker may—
a
acquire compulsorily, or acquire new rights or impose restrictive covenants over any Order land belonging to statutory undertakers; and
b
extinguish the rights of, and remove or reposition 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; and
b
article 32 (apparatus and rights of statutory undertakers in stopped up streets).