6E+WSubject to the following provisions of this Part of this Schedule, the authority on whose application an order under section 116 stopping up or diverting a highway was made or, as the case may be, the authority who conveyed the land pursuant to section 256, shall pay to any statutory undertakers an amount equal to the cost reasonably incurred by them in or in connection with—
(a)the execution of undertakers’ works required in consequence of the stopping up or diversion of that highway or, as the case may be, the conveyance of the land, and
(b)the doing of any other work or thing rendered necessary by the execution of undertakers’ works.