SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 5FOR THE PROTECTION OF SPECIFIED GAS UNDERTAKERS

Apparatus of the gas undertaker in stopped up streets

schedule 14 paragraph 51 + 51.—(1) Where any street is stopped up under article 14 (permanent stopping up of streets and private means of access), if the gas undertaker has any apparatus in the street or accessed via that street the gas undertaker is entitled to the same rights in respect of such apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to the gas undertaker, or procure the granting to the gas undertaker of, legal easements reasonably satisfactory to the gas undertaker in respect of such apparatus and access to it prior to the stopping up of any such street or highway, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or of the gas undertaker to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 54 (removal of apparatus).

(2) Notwithstanding the temporary closure, alteration, diversion or restriction of use of any street under the powers of article 12 (temporary closure, alteration, diversion and restriction of use of streets), the gas undertaker will be at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such closed, restricted, altered or diverted street and to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such street as it would have been entitled to do immediately before such temporary closure, alteration, diversion or restriction of use in respect of any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that street.