51Alteration to works in streets

51. Alteration to works in streets

Subject to section 52, where an energy operator considers it necessary at any time to alter the position of any works which are laid in, over or under any street and are under the control or management of any person or local or other authority then it may by notice in writing request any such person or authority concerned to effect the alterations in such manner and within such reasonable time as shall be specified in that notice, and if that notice is complied with the reasonable expenses incurred by that person or authority attendant upon or connected with those alterations shall be repayable by the energy operator, but where that notice is not complied with the energy operator may at its own cost cause such alterations to be made to those works as are required by the energy operator.

[Section 51 amended: No. 89 of 1994 s. 39 and 41; No. 58 of 1999 s. 83(1) and (3).]