ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972

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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 52



52.(1) Nothing in this Order shall be construed as authorising any matter or
thing to be done without the consent of the Secretary of State or the Board of
Trade and, where requisite, the Crown Estate Commissioners in any case where
that consent is required to be obtained by virtue of section 9 of the Northern
Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1932.

(2) Nothing in this Order shall exonerate the Service from any proceedings for
any nuisance caused by it.

(3) Nothing in this Order shall limit or interfere with the rights of any
owner, lessee or occupier of any mines or minerals lying under or adjacent to
any road along or across which any electric lines shall be laid to work the
mine and minerals.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), nothing in this Order or in any instrument made
thereunder shall affect any powers of the Post Office under the provisions of
the Telegraph Acts 1863 to 1916 or authorise the Service to alter or interfere
with any telegraphic lines placed or maintained by virtue of those Acts.

(5) Where for the purposes of carrying out any construction scheme or supply
scheme the Service diverts or closes any road or any part of a road under, in,
upon, over, along or across which there is any telegraphic line belonging to
or used by the Post Office, the Post Office shall have the same powers in
respect of that line as if such road or part had not been diverted or closed.

(6) Where

(a)in connection with the diversion or closure of any road or part of a road
as mentioned in paragraph (5), the Service, the [Department of the
Environment] or any person in whom the site of the road or part of the road is
vested, or

(b)in connection with the doing of any other thing for the purposes of
carrying out any construction scheme or supply scheme, the Service,

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ELECTRICITY SUPPLY (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 52