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Highways - entry of highway authority for purpose of maintaining, etc. certain structures and works Power
- Description
- Where a highway authority have power or a right to maintain, alter or remove any structure or work which is situated on, over or under any land, and that land neither belongs to the highway authority nor forms part of a highway for which they are the highway authority, then, if for the purpose of exercising that power or that right it is necessary for a person to enter on that land or any other land, a person duly authorised in writing by that authority may at any reasonable time enter on that land or any other land for that purpose. The local authority may have to pay compensation in certain circumstances.
- Modified
- 24 Jul 2015
- Status
- Live
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