(1)The Company may stop up and discontinue so much of the footpaths specified in column (1) of Schedule 4 to this Act as is set out in column (2) of that Schedule and substitute therefor the new footpaths (if any) between the points set out in column (3) of that Schedule.
(2)The public use of the footpaths to be stopped up and discontinued under subsection (1) above shall not be interfered with until such new footpaths as are authorised by that subsection are completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the highway authority.