SCHEDULE 9Protective provisions

PART 3For the protection of National Grid

Apparatus of National Grid in streets subject to temporary stopping up

28.—(1) Without prejudice to the generality of any other protection afforded to National Grid elsewhere in the Order, where any street is stopped up under article 12 (temporary restriction of use of streets), if National Grid has any apparatus in the street or accessed via that street National Grid is entitled to the same rights in respect of such apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker will grant to National Grid, or will procure the granting to National Grid of, legal easements reasonably satisfactory to National Grid 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 National Grid to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 31 or the power of the undertaker, subject to compliance with this sub-paragraph, to carry out works under paragraph 33.

(2) Notwithstanding a temporary restriction under article 12 (temporary restriction of use of streets), National Grid is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such street or to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such street as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion is in that street.