Paragraph 23 Power to execute works in default or emergencyI1

If at any time the undertaker does not comply with any of the terms of this Schedule in respect of any phase of the highway works, having been given notice of an alleged breach and opportunity to remedy it by the director, the highway authority must on giving to the undertaker fourteen days’ notice in writing to that effect be entitled to carry out and complete that phase of the highway works and any maintenance works on the undertaker’s behalf and the undertaker must within 28 days pay to the highway authority the cost so incurred by the highway authority.

Nothing in this Schedule prevents the highway authority from carrying out any work or taking such action as deemed appropriate forthwith without prior notice to the undertaker in the event of an emergency or danger to the public, the cost to the highway authority of such work or action being chargeable to and recoverable from the undertaker.