(9) Where a person responsible for the maintenance or renewal of a connection wishes, or has been directed under subsection (6)(a), either by himself or herself or by arrangement with a third party, to undertake maintenance or renewal works on a connection, or any part of it, which runs through, across, under, over or along any road or any street or place laid out or intended for a road or a street, he or she may do so, subject to the consent of the road authority in whose functional area the road or street is situated.