Article 17 Recovery of costs of new connectionI1

Where any apparatus of a public utility undertaker or public communications provider is removed under article 16 (statutory undertakers and operator of the electronic communications code network) any person who is the owner or occupier of premises to which a supply was given from that apparatus is entitled to recover from the undertaker compensation in respect of expenditure reasonably incurred by that person, in consequence of the removal, for the purpose of effecting a connection between the premises and any other apparatus from which a supply is given.