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Right of corporation and gas company to open roads.
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20.—Nothing in this Act shall take away or abridge any power to open or break up any street along or across which the Tramways are laid, or any other power vested in the Corporation or in any company body or person for the purpose of laying down, repairing, altering or removing any sewers or main or pipe for the supply of water or gas or any tubes wires or apparatus for telegraphic electrical or other purposes; but in the exercise of such power the Corporation and every such company body or person save the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs shall be subject to the following restrictions:—
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(1) They shall cause as little detriment or inconvenience to the Commissioners as circumstances will admit.
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(2) Before they commence any such work whereby the traffic on the Tramways will be interrupted they shall (except in cases of urgency, in which case no notice shall be necessary) give to the Commissioners notice of their intention to commence such work, specifying the time at which they will begin to do so, such notice to be given forty-eight hours at least before the commencement of the work.
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(3) They shall not be liable to pay to the Commissioners any compensation for unavoidable injury done to the Tramways or for loss of traffic occasioned by the execution of such work, or for the reasonable exercise of the power vested in them as aforesaid.
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(4) Wherever for the purpose of enabling them to execute such work the Corporation or any such company, body or person shall so require the Commissioners shall either stop the traffic on the Tramways to which the notice shall refer, where it would otherwise interfere with such work, or shore up and secure the same at their own expense during the execution of the work, provided that such work shall always be completed by the Corporation or such company body or person with all reasonable expedition.
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(5) The Corporation or any such company body or person shall not execute such work so far as it immediately affects the Tramways except under the superintendence of the Commissioners unless they refuse or neglect to give such superintendence at the time specified in the notice for the commencement of the work or discontinue the same during the progress of the work, and they shall execute such work at their own expense and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Commissioners.
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