Paragraph 4 Apparatus in stopped up streets

Where any street is stopped up under article 10 (permanent stopping up of streets), any utility undertaker whose apparatus is in the street has the same powers and rights in respect of that apparatus as it enjoyed immediately before the stopping up and the undertaker must grant to the utility undertaker legal easements reasonably satisfactory to the utility undertaker in respect of such apparatus and access to it, but nothing in this paragraph affects any right of the undertaker or of the utility undertaker to require the removal of that apparatus under paragraph 6 of this Part of this Schedule or the power of the undertaker to carry out works under paragraph 8 of this Part of this Schedule.

Regardless of the temporary stopping up or diversion of any street under the powers conferred by article 11 (temporary stopping up of streets), a utility undertaker is at liberty at all times to take all necessary access across any such stopped up street and to execute and do all such works and things in, upon or under any such street 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 street.