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Article 10

SCHEDULE 2 PROVISIONS RELATING TO STATUTORY UNDERTAKERS ETC.

1.  Sections 271 to 274 of the 1990 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 acquired or appropriated by the Company under this Order; and all such other provisions of that Act as apply for the purposes of those provisions (including sections 275 to 278, which contain provisions consequential on the extinguishment of any rights under sections 271 and 272, and sections 279(2) to (4), 280 and 282, which provide for the payment of compensation) shall have effect accordingly.

2.  In the provisions of the 1990 Act, as applied by paragraph 1, references to the appropriate Minister are references to the Secretary of State.

3.  Where any apparatus of public utility undertakers or of a public communications provider is removed in pursuance of a notice or order given or made under section 271, 272 or 273 of the 1990 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 Company compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by him, 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 Company compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by him, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of making his drain or sewer communicate with any other public sewer or with a private sewerage disposal plant.

5.  The provisions of the 1990 Act mentioned in paragraph 1, as applied by that paragraph, shall not have effect in relation to apparatus as respects which Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(14) applies.

6.  In this Schedule—

“the 1990 Act” means the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(15);

“owner”, in relation to land, has the same meaning as in the Acquisition of Land Act 1981(16);

“public communications provider” has the same meaning as in section 151(1) of the Communications Act 2003(17); and

“public utility undertakers” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980(18).

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Order confers on PD Teesport Limited power to compulsorily acquire land and rights in or over land in the Tees Dock area in connection with the proposed redevelopment of that area. The Order does not authorise the construction of works or any other development.

A copy of the land plans and the book of reference referred to in the Order may be inspected at the offices of the Company, 17-27 Queen’s Square, Middlesbrough TS2 1AH.