Paragraph 4 Apparatus of protected undertakers in stopped up streetsI1

Where any street is stopped up under this Order, any protected undertaker whose apparatus is in the street or accessed via that street shall be entitled to the same rights in respect of such apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker will grant to the protected undertaker legal easements reasonably satisfactory to the specified protected undertaker in respect of such apparatus and access to it prior to the stopping up of any such street or highway.

Notwithstanding the temporary stopping up or diversion of any highway under the powers of article 16 (temporary stopping up of streets), or otherwise under this Order, a protected undertaker shall be at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up highway and/or to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such highway as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the stopping up or diversion was in that highway subject always to the undertaking of works by the undertaker authorised by this Order.