Stopping up of streets
8.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article the Company may, in connection with the authorised works, stop up the street specified in column (2) of Schedule 3 (street to be stopped up) to the extent specified in column (3) of that Schedule.
(2) Where a street has been stopped up under this article—
(a)all rights of way over or along it shall be extinguished; and
(b)the Company may appropriate and use for the purposes of its undertaking so much of the site of the street so stopped up.
(3) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment or suspension of any private right of way under this article shall be entitled to be paid compensation by the Company to be determined, in case of dispute, under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.
(4) This article is subject to paragraph 2 of Schedule 8 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers, etc.) and paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 (for protection of specified undertakers).