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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)

Where, by reason of this Order, any part of any highway in which any apparatus is situated ceases to be part of a highway National Grid Gas may exercise the same rights of access to such apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the coming into force of this Order and the Company shall grant to National Grid Gas legal easements or rights reasonably satisfactory to National Grid Gas, but nothing in this paragraph shall affect any right of the Company or of National Grid Gas to require removal of such apparatus under this Part of this Schedule or the power of the Company to execute works in accordance with paragraph 7.