purpose of this definition “associated company” means any company which is (within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006(a)) the holding company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, a subsidiary of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited or another subsidiary of the holding company of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited;


“plans” includes sections, designs, design data, software, drawings, specifications, soil reports, calculations, descriptions (including descriptions of methods of construction), staging proposals, programmes and details of the extent, timing and duration of any proposed occupation of railway property;


“railway operational procedures” means procedures specified under any access agreement (as defined in the Railways Act 1993) or station lease;


“railway property” means any railway belonging to Network Rail and—


(a) any station, land, works, apparatus and equipment belonging to Network Rail or connected with any such railway; and


(b) any easement or other property interest held or used by Network Rail for the purposes of such railway or works, apparatus or equipment; and


“specified work” means so much of any of the authorised development as is situated upon, across, under, over or within 15 metres of, or may in any way adversely affect, railway property.


3.—(1) Where under this part of this Schedule Network Rail is required to give its consent,


agreement or approval in respect of any matter, that consent, agreement or approval is subject to the condition that Network Rail complies with any relevant railway operational procedures and any obligations under its network licence or under statute.


(2) In so far as any specified work or the acquisition or use of railway property is or may be subject to railway operational procedures, Network Rail must—


(a) co-operate with the undertaker with a view to avoiding undue delay and securing conformity as between any plans approved by the engineer and requirements emanating from those procedures; and


(b) use its reasonable endeavours to avoid any conflict arising between the application of those procedures and the proper implementation of the authorised development under this Order.


4.—(1) The undertaker must not exercise the powers conferred by article 14 (authority to survey


and investigate the land) or the powers conferred by section 11(3) of the 1965 Act (powers of entry) in respect of any railway property unless the exercise of such powers is with the consent of Network Rail.


(2) The undertaker must not in the exercise of the powers conferred by this Order prevent


pedestrian or vehicular access to any railway property, unless preventing such access is with the consent of Network Rail.


(3) The undertaker shall not exercise the powers conferred by sections 271 or 272 of the 1990


Act (extinguishment of rights of statutory undertakers and electronic code communications operators: preliminary notices), or article 25 (statutory undertakers), in relation to any right of access of Network Rail to railway property, but such right of access may be diverted with the consent of Network Rail.


(4) The undertaker must not under the powers conferred by this Order acquire or use or acquire


new rights over, or seek to impose any restrictive covenants over, any railway property, or extinguish any existing rights of Network Rail in respect of any third party property except with the consent of Network Rail.


(5) Where Network Rail is asked to give its consent or agreement pursuant to this paragraph,


such consent or agreement must not be unreasonably withheld but may be given subject to reasonable conditions.


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