The HyNet Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Order 2024

Removal of apparatus

123.—(1) If, in the exercise of the powers conferred by this Order, including pursuant to any agreement reached in accordance with paragraph 118, the undertaker acquires any interest in, on or under any land in which any apparatus is placed or over which access is enjoyed and requires Wales and West Utilities’ apparatus is relocated or diverted, that apparatus must not be decommissioned or removed under this Part, and any right of Wales and West Utilities to maintain that apparatus in that land and to gain access to it must not be extinguished or interfered with until alternative apparatus has been constructed and is in operation and the facilities and rights referred to in sub-paragraph (2) to the reasonable satisfaction of Wales and West Utilities.

(2) If, for the purpose of executing any works in, on or under any land purchased, leased, held, appropriated or used under this Order, the undertaker requires the removal of any apparatus placed in that land, the undertaker must give to Wales and West Utilities at least 28 days’ written notice of that requirement, together with a plan, description, risk assessment method statement and section drawing of the work proposed which complies with WWU standards, and of the proposed position of the alternative apparatus to be provided or constructed; and in that case (or if in consequence of the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this Order Wales and West Utilities reasonably needs to remove any of its apparatus) the undertaker must, subject to sub-paragraph (3), afford to Wales and West Utilities the necessary facilities and rights for the construction of alternative apparatus in other land of the undertaker and subsequently for the maintenance of and access to that apparatus and any appropriate working areas.

(3) If alternative apparatus or any part of such apparatus is to be constructed elsewhere than in other land of the undertaker, or the undertaker is unable to afford such facilities and rights as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) in the land in which the alternative apparatus or part of such apparatus is to be constructed, Wales and West Utilities must, on receipt of a written notice to that effect from the undertaker, as soon as reasonably possible use reasonable endeavours to obtain the necessary facilities and rights in the land in which the alternative apparatus is to be constructed.

(4) Any alternative apparatus to be constructed in land of the undertaker under this Part must be constructed in such manner and in such line or situation as may be agreed between Wales and West Utilities and the undertaker or in default of agreement settled by arbitration in accordance with article 47 (arbitration).

(5) Wales and West Utilities must, after the alternative apparatus to be provided or constructed has been agreed or settled by arbitration in accordance with article 47 (arbitration), and after the grant to Wales and West Utilities of any such facilities and rights as are referred to in sub-paragraph (2) or (3), proceed without unnecessary delay to construct and bring into operation the alternative apparatus and subsequently to remove or decommission any apparatus required by the undertaker to be removed or decommissioned under the provisions of this Part.