SCHEDULE 22 Protection for Particular Undertakings

SCHEDULE 22 Protection for Particular Undertakings

Section 178

General provisions protecting undertakings

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(1)     Nothing in any of the provisions of this Act conferring power on the [appropriate agency] to carry out any works shall confer power to do anything, except with the consent of the persons carrying on an undertaking protected by this paragraph, which, whether directly or indirectly, so interferes or will so interfere—

(a)     with works or property vested in or under the control of the persons carrying on that undertaking, in their capacity as such; or

(b)     with the use of any such works or property,

as to affect injuriously those works or that property or the carrying on of that undertaking.

(2)     A consent for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above may be given subject to reasonable conditions but shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(3)     Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, any dispute—

(a)     as to whether anything done or proposed to be done interferes or will interfere as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above;

(b)     as to whether any consent for the purposes of this paragraph is being unreasonably withheld; or

(c)     as to whether any condition subject to which

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