Paragraph 4 I1

Where any street is stopped up under article 11 (permanent stopping up of streets), any undertaker whose apparatus is in the street has the same powers and rights in respect of that apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the Secretary of State must grant to the undertaker legal easements reasonably satisfactory to the undertaker in respect of such apparatus and access to it, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the Secretary of State or of the undertaker to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 7 or the power of the Secretary of State to carry out works under paragraph 9.

Regardless of the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers conferred by article 12 (temporary stopping up of streets), an undertaker is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up highway and 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.