Paragraph 45 Apparatus of National Grid in stopped up streets

Without prejudice to the generality of any other protection afforded to National Grid elsewhere in the Order, where any street is stopped up under article 16 (permanent stopping up of streets, change of status and extinguishment of private means of access), if National Grid has any apparatus that is in the street or accessed via that street National Grid will 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 National Grid, or will procure the granting to National Grid of such rights 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 19 (temporary closure of streets and private means of access), National Grid will 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 it would have been entitled to do immediately before such temporary stopping up or diversion as may be reasonably necessary or desirable to enable it to maintain any apparatus which at the time of the temporary stopping up or diversion was in that highway.