Powers of company

Powers of company

313 A company may, for the purposes of its undertaking, subject to this Act and to any Special Act applicable to it, (a) enter into and on any Crown land without previous licence, or into and on the land of any person, lying in the intended route of its pipeline, and make surveys, examinations or other necessary arrangements on the land for fixing the site of the pipeline and set out and ascertain the parts of the land that are necessary and appropriate for the pipeline; (b) acquire, lease and take from any person any land or other property necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation and abandonment of its pipeline or the maintenance of its abandoned pipeline and sell or otherwise dispose of, or lease, any of its land or property that has become unnecessary for the purpose of the pipeline or the abandoned pipeline; (c) construct its pipeline across, on or under the land of any person on the located line of the pipeline; (d) join its pipeline with the transmission facilities of any other person at any point on its route; (e) construct, erect and maintain all necessary and convenient roads, buildings, houses, stations, depots, wharves, docks and other structures and construct, acquire and lease machinery and other apparatus necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation and abandonment of its pipeline or the maintenance of its abandoned pipeline; (f) construct, maintain and operate branch lines and for that purpose exercise all the powers, privileges and authority necessary for that purpose in as full and ample a manner as for a pipeline; (g) alter, repair or discontinue the works mentioned in this section, or any of them, and substitute others in their stead; (h) transmit hydrocarbons or any other commodity by pipeline and regulate the time and manner in which hydrocarbons or any other commodity are to be transmitted and the tolls to be charged; and (i) do all other acts necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation and abandonment of its pipeline or the maintenance of its abandoned pipeline.