27.—(1) Where any apparatus of a public utility undertakers or of a public communications provider is removed under article 25 (statutory undertakers) any person who is the owner or occupier of premises to which a supply was given from that apparatus shall be entitled to recover from the undertakers compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of effecting a connection between the premises and any other apparatus from which a supply is given.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in the case of the removal of a public sewer but where such a sewer is removed under article 25, any person who is—
(a)the owner or occupier of premises the drains of which communicated with that sewer; or
(b)the owner of a private sewer which communicated with that sewer,
shall be entitled to recover from the undertakers compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of making the drain or sewer belonging to that person communicate with any other public sewer or with a private sewerage disposal plant.
(3) This article shall not have effect in relation to apparatus to which Part 3 of the 1991 Act applies.
(4) In this paragraph—
“public communications provider” has the same meaning as in section 151(1) of the Communications Act 2003; and
“public utility undertakers” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act.