16(1)Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the Concessionaires may, in connection with the construction of their scheduled works, stop up each of the highways or parts thereof specified, by reference to the letters and numbers shown on the deposited plans, in columns (1) and (2) of Section A in Part I or II of the following table and any other bridleways or footpaths within the limits of land to be acquired.U.K.
(2)Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the County Council may, in connection with the construction of their scheduled works, stop up each of the highways or parts thereof specified as aforesaid in columns (1) and (2) of Section B in Part I or II of the following table and any other bridleways or footpaths within the limits of land to be acquired.
(3)Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, the Railways Board may stop up each of the highways or parts thereof specified as aforesaid in columns (1) and (2) of Section C in Part I or II of the following table and any other bridleways or footpaths within the limits of land to be acquired.
(4)The stopping up under this paragraph of the existing highways or parts thereof specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part II of the following table is subject to the requirements of paragraph 18 below—
(a)with respect to the new highway to be substituted therefor, specified as aforesaid or by reference to scheduled works, in column (3) of that Part of the table in relation to each such existing highway or part thereof; or
(b)where that new highway is not a scheduled work, with respect either to that new highway or to such other new highway as may be approved by the County Council as the highway to be substituted for any such existing highway or part thereof;
and references in paragraph 18, in relation to any such existing highway or part thereof, to an alternative approved highway are references to any other new highway approved as mentioned in paragraph (b) above as the highway to be substituted for it.