SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 6FOR THE PROTECTION OF LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES

Dispositions

78.—(1) Until issue (or deemed issue) of the final certificate the undertaker must give the local highway authority written notice of any disposition of any legal interest in the land adjacent to the specified works within 15 working days of completion of such disposals save in the following circumstances—

(a)where the disposal is to a—

(i)local authority;

(ii)statutory body or service supply company of an electricity substation gas governor pumping station, water pumping station or other statutory services which have been or are to be constructed or installed;

(iii)local highway authority for the purpose of adoption of the roads and footpaths and cycle ways to be constructed; and/or

(iv)a subsidiary of the undertaker;

(b)where the disposal comprises or involves—

(i)the grant of a legal charge or any security but for the avoidance of doubt not a disposition by a mortgagee in possession or under a power of sale;

(ii)a compulsory sale or acquisition (whether permanent or temporary);

(iii)the grant of a garage lease with the use restricted to use in association with a dwelling.