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The Network Rail (Thameslink 2000) Order 2006

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Rights under streets

28.—(1) Network Rail may enter upon and appropriate so much of the subsoil of any street within the Order limits as may be required for the purposes of the authorised works and may use the subsoil for those purposes or any other purpose ancillary to its railway undertaking.

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the power under paragraph (1) may be exercised in relation to a street without Network Rail being required to acquire any part of the street or any easement or right in the street.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), Network Rail shall not be required to pay any compensation for the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) 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 1 of the 1961 Act.

(4) Paragraphs (2) and (3) 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) shall relieve Network Rail from liability to compensate any person under section 10(2) of the 1965 Act or under Part 1 of the 1973 Act as applied by this Order, arising from the exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1).

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