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SCHEDULE 7 Statutory undertakers, etc.

(introduced by section 34)

1 Subject to the provisions of this schedule, sections 224 to 227 of the 1997 Act (power to extinguish rights of statutory undertakers, etc. and power of statutory undertakers, etc. to remove or re-site apparatus) shall apply in relation to any land which has been acquired under this Act, or which is held by the authorised undertaker and is appropriated or used (or about to be used) by it for the purposes of this Act or for purposes connected with this Act.

2 All such other provisions of the 1997 Act as apply for the purposes of the provisions applied by paragraph 1 (including sections 228 to 231, which contain provisions consequential on the extinguishment of any rights under sections 224 and 225, and sections 232(2) to (4), 233 and 235, which provide for the payment of compensation) shall have effect accordingly.

3 Where any apparatus of a utility undertaker or of a public communications provider is removed in pursuance of a notice or order given or made under section 224, 225 or 226 of the 1997 Act, as applied by paragraph 1, any person who is the owner or occupier of premises to which a supply was given from that apparatus shall be entitled to recover from the authorised undertaker compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of effecting a connection between the premises and any other apparatus from which a supply is given.

4 Paragraph 3 shall not apply in the case of the removal of a public sewer, but where such a sewer is removed in pursuance of such a notice or order as is mentioned in that paragraph, any person who is—

(a) the owner or occupier of premises the drains of which communicated with that sewer; or

(b) the owner of a private sewer which communicated with that sewer,

shall be entitled to recover from the authorised undertaker compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of making the person’s drain or sewer communicate with any other public sewer or with a private sewage disposal plant.

5 The provisions of the 1997 Act mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2, as applied by those paragraphs, shall not have effect in relation to apparatus as respects which Part IV of the 1991 Act applies.

6 In this schedule—

• “gas transporter” has the meaning given by section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44);

• “public communications provider” has the meaning given by section 151(1) of the Communications Act 2003 (c. 21); and

• “utility undertaker” means a person who is—

  (a)

  authorised by any enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of water;

  (b)

  a gas transporter; or

  (c)

  the holder of a licence under section 6 of the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29),

  and who is, or is deemed to be, a statutory undertaker within the meaning of section 214 of the 1997 Act.

SCHEDULE 8 Listed buildings

(introduced by section 37)

1 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), if a listed building was such a building immediately before 1^st September 2004 and is specified in columns (1), (2) and (3) of the following table—

(a) section 6 of the Listed Buildings Act (restriction on works affecting listed buildings) shall not apply to works carried out in relation to the building in exercise of the powers conferred by Part 1 of this Act;

(b) to the extent that a notice issued in relation to the building under section 34(1) of that Act (enforcement) requires the taking of steps which would be rendered ineffective, or substantially ineffective, by works proposed to be carried out in exercise of the powers conferred by Part 1 of this Act, it shall not have effect or, as the case may be, shall cease to have effect;

(c) no steps may be taken in relation to the building under section 38(1) of that Act (execution of works specified in notice under section 34(1)) which would be rendered ineffective, or substantially ineffective, by such works as are mentioned in paragraph (b); and

(d) no works may be executed for the preservation of the building under section 49 of that Act (urgent works to preserve unoccupied listed buildings) which would be rendered ineffective, or substantially ineffective, by such works as are mentioned in paragraph (b).

(2) In the case of the building specified in columns (1), (2) and (3) of the following table in relation to which any description of works is specified in column (4) of that table, sub-paragraph (1) shall have effect as if the references to works carried out in exercise of the powers conferred by Part 1 of this Act were to works so carried out which are of a description specified in relation to it in that column.

(3) Paragraphs (a) to (d) of sub-paragraph (1) shall also apply in relation to a listed building which was not such a building immediately before 1^st September 2004.

(4) Anything which, by virtue of section 1(4) of the Listed Buildings Act (objects or structures fixed to, or within the curtilage of, a building), is treated as part of a building for the purposes of that Act shall be treated as part of the building for the purposes of this paragraph.

2 Section 53 of the Listed Buildings Act (acts causing or likely to result in damage to listed buildings) shall not apply to anything done in exercise of the powers conferred by Part 1 of this Act with respect to works.

3 In this schedule—

• “the Listed Buildings Act” means the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 9); and

• “building” and “listed building” have the same meanings as in the Listed Buildings Act.