Paragraph 11

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 6 words omitted by Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) 2017 Sch. 1 para. 23(2)(a)
Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 6 words substituted by Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) 2017 Sch. 1 para. 23(2)(b)
Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 6 words inserted by Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) 2017 Sch. 1 para. 23(2)(c)

(1)

Where, by reason of the stopping up of any highway, any apparatus belonging to National Grid Gas and laid or placed in such highway or elsewhere is rendered derelict or unnecessary, the Company shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2), pay to National Grid Gas the then value of such apparatus (which shall thereupon become the property of the Company) and the reasonable cost of and incidental to the cutting off of such apparatus from any other apparatus, and of and incidental to the execution or doing of any works or things rendered necessary or expedient by reason of such apparatus being so rendered derelict or unnecessary.

(2)

The Company shall not under the provisions of this paragraph be required to pay to National Grid Gas the value of any apparatus rendered derelict or unnecessary if, to the reasonable satisfaction of National Grid Gas, other apparatus has at the expense of the Company been provided and laid and made ready for use in substitution for the apparatus so rendered derelict or unnecessary.