SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 8FOR THE PROTECTION OF NORTHERN GAS NETWORK’S APPARATUS

Facilities and rights for alternative apparatus103

1

Where, in accordance with the provisions of this Schedule, the undertaker affords to the statutory undertaker facilities and rights for the construction and maintenance in the undertaker’s land of alternative apparatus in substitution for apparatus to be removed, those facilities and rights shall be granted upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the undertaker and the statutory undertaker and shall be no less favourable on the whole to the statutory undertaker than the facilities and rights enjoyed by it in respect of the apparatus to be removed, unless otherwise reasonably agreed.

2

If the facilities and rights to be afforded by the undertaker in respect of any alternative apparatus in the undertaker’s land are less favourable on the whole to the statutory undertaker than the facilities and rights enjoyed by it in respect of the apparatus to be removed, then the undertaker and the statutory undertaker shall agree appropriate compensation for the extent to which the new facilities and rights render the statutory undertaker less able to effectively carry out its undertaking or require it to do so at greater cost. If the amount of compensation cannot be agreed, then either the undertaker or the statutory undertaker may refer the matter to arbitration as per article 52 (arbitration) of this Order.