Paragraph 20 Apparatus of National Grid in streets subject to temporary prohibition or restrictionI1

Without prejudice to the generality of any other protection afforded to National Grid elsewhere in the Order, where any public right of way is stopped up under article 13 (permanent stopping up of public rights of way), if National Grid has any apparatus in the public right of way or accessed via that public right of way National Grid will be entitled to the same rights in respect of such apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the promoter will grant to National Grid, or will procure the granting to the National Grid of, legal easements reasonably satisfactory to the specified undertaker in respect of such apparatus and access to it prior to the stopping up of any such public rights of way.

Notwithstanding the temporary prohibition or restriction under the powers of article 12 (temporary stopping up of streets and public rights of way), National Grid shall be at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such street and/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 prohibition or restriction was in that street.