The London Underground (East London Line Extension) Order 1997

Rights under streets

20.—(1) The Company may enter upon and appropriate so much of the subsoil of any street shown within the limits as may be required for the purposes of the authorised works and may use the subsoil for those purposes or any other purpose connected with or ancillary to its railway undertaking.

(2) The power under paragraph (1) above may be exercised in relation to a street without the Company being required to acquire any part of the street or any easement or right in the street.

(3) The Company shall not be required to pay any compensation for the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) above where the street is a highway; but where the street is not a highway any owner or occupier of subsoil suffering loss by the entry upon and appropriation of such subsoil shall be entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part I of the 1961 Act.

(4) Paragraphs (2) and (3) above shall not apply in relation to–

(a)any subway or underground building, or

(b)any cellar, vault, arch or other construction in or on a street which forms part of a building fronting onto the street.

(5) Nothing in paragraph (3) above shall relieve the Company from liability to compensate under section 10(2) of the 1965 Act or under Part I of the 1973 Act as incorporated or applied by this Order, arising from the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) above.