12. Despite the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers of article 13 (temporary stopping up of streets and public rights of way), National Grid is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up highway or to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such highway as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that highway.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 8 para. 12 in force at 2.12.2021, see art. 1