Commentary on provisions of the Act Part 1: Further and supplementary provisions Authority to survey and investigate land etc
Schedule 2 contains a number of further and supplementary works powers for Phase One.
	Paragraph 1(1) authorises the nominated undertaker to survey or investigate land which is within the Act limits or affected by the Phase One works, and to protect or remove flora or fauna. Paragraph 1(2) provides that this includes the power to make trial holes, carry out ecological or archaeological investigations, and to take samples.
	Under paragraphs 1(3) and (4), consent of the highway authority is required to the making of trial holes in a carriageway or footway in exercise of these powers, with such consent not to be unreasonably withheld.
	Paragraph 1(5) confers power to enter land in order to carry out the investigation, and to place or leave apparatus. Under paragraph 1(6), 7 days’ notice must be given to the owners and occupiers of the land before doing so. Part 2 of the Schedule contains other provisions about entry, including about compensation.