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RAILWAYS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACT 1845 - SECT 18

Alteration of water and gas pipes, &c.

18. It shall be lawful for the company, for the purpose of constructing
the railway, to raise, sink, or otherwise alter the position of any of the
watercourses, water pipes, or gas pipes belonging to any of the houses
adjoining or near to the railway, and also the mains and other pipes laid down
by any company or society who may furnish the inhabitants of such houses or
places with water or gas, and also to remove all other obstructions to such
construction, so as the same respectively be done with as little detriment and
inconvenience to such company, society, or inhabitants as the circumstances
will admit, and be done under the superintendence of the company to which such
water pipes or gas pipes belong, and of the several commissioners or trustees
or persons having control of the pavements, sewers, roads, streets, highways,
lanes, and other public passages and places within the parish or district
where such mains, pipes or obstructions shall be situate, or of their
surveyor, if they or he think fit to attend, after receiving not less than
forty-eight hours notice for that purpose.

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