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| | Property clinic | Ask An Expert | Property | Telegraph |
 | | Usually such rights arise under what is known as a "wayleave agreement", under which the house owner authorises the electricity company to install a line on, under or over his land. |
 | | By statute, if the householder does not agree to what is called "the necessary wayleave" then the Secretary of State may grant "the necessary wayleave" himself. |
 | | In addition to giving the company the right to install the elecric line, the necessary wayleave also gives it the right "to have access to the land for the purpose of inspecting, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering, replacing or removing the electric line". |
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