Power to install, adjust, etc., electrical lines, etc., and to break up streets

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, for any purpose connected with the carrying on of the activities which he is authorized by his licence to carry on, a licence holder may (a) the following kinds of work, that is to say, installing under, over, in, on, along or across any street and from time to time inspecting, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering, replacing or removing– (i) any electric line or electrical plant; and (ii) any structures for housing or covering any such lines or plants; and (b) any works requisite for or incidental to the purposes of any works falling within paragraph (a) of this sub-section , including for those purposes– (i) opening or breaking up any street or any sewers, drains or tunnels within or under any street; (ii) tunnelling or boring under any street; and (iii) removing or using all earth and materials in or under any street, but nothing in this sub-section shall empower a licence holder to lay down or place any electric line or electrical plant into, through or against any building, or in any land not dedicated to the public use. (2) The licence holder shall give reasonable notice to the relevant authority of the intention so to do, specifying the portion of the street proposed to be opened and broken up. 36 (3) The licence holder shall cause a light sufficient for the warning of passengers to be set up and maintained at night on the portion of the street so opened and broken up until the street has been reinstated and made good to the satisfaction of the relevant authority. (4) During such time as the street shall be opened and broken up, the licence holder shall provide, to the satisfaction of the relevant authority, reasonable facilities for the passage of ordinary vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the street. (5) The licence holder shall pay the costs of reinstating and making good the street to the satisfaction of the relevant authority. (6) The licence holder shall not place any electric line or electrical plant or post, pole, pillar or other works in any position objected to by the relevant authority and, in the event of any such objection, the licence holder shall refer the matter to the Commission which shall make a decision thereon. (7) In this section, “relevant authority” means, in the case of a street falling within the limits of a city or town, the local authority concerned, and in the case of any other street, the Ministry of Works. care.