Section 89
Power of railway company to execute all necessary works
of Land Public Transport Act 2010
Subject to this Act, whenever it is necessary so to do, a railway company may, for the purpose of constructing a railway or the accommodation or other works connected therewith —
(a)
make or construct in, upon, across, under or over any land or river, such temporary works or structures, including roads, bridges, rails, ways, conduits and drains, as the railway company thinks proper; and
(b)
alter temporarily the course of any roads, streets or ways as the railway company thinks proper.
(2)
In exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1), the railway company shall be subject to any direction that may be given by the Director General of Land Public Transport.
(3)
A railway company shall, before exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1), give notice to the proprietor or occupier of the land, and simultaneously provide a copy of the notice to the
Director General of Land Public Transport, of its intention to enter the land.
(4)
The notice mentioned in subsection (3) shall state as fully and accurately as possible the nature and extent of the acts intended to be done.
(5)
The Director General of Land Public Transport may determine the form of the notice mentioned in subsection (3) and the manner in which such notice may be served on a proprietor or occupier of the land.