106Maintenance of network facilities

106 Maintenance of network facilities (1) A utility may, at any time, maintain a network facility and, for that purpose, do anything necessary or desirable, including, for example— (a) entering and occupying land; and (b) undertaking any work of a kind mentioned in section 105. (2) For subsection (1), the maintenance of a network facility includes, for example, the following work: (a) the alteration, removal, repair or replacement of any part of the facility;

(b) the provisioning of the facility with material or information (whether in electronic form or otherwise); (c) inspecting or otherwise ensuring the proper functioning of the facility from time to time; (d) action to which a network protection notice relates. Note For par (d)—see the Utilities (Technical Regulation) Act 2014, s 32 (Network protection notices). (3) Any work undertaken under this section that affects a protected tree (b) for a registered or remnant tree, if the work is undertaken for protecting life or property in urgent circumstances—anything done in relation to the tree under this section; or (c) for a protected tree in any other case—an activity approved under that Act, s 28 or s 32 (see that Act, s 18 (1) (c)).