SCHEDULE 7 Protective Provisions
Part I Highways and Traffic
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If the highway authority, after giving to the appropriate authority not less than 28 days’ notice (or, in case of emergency, such notice as is reasonably practicable) of their intention to do so, incur any additional expense in the signposting of traffic diversions or the taking of other measures in relation thereto, or in the repair of any highway by reason of the diversion thereto of traffic from a road of a higher standard, in consequence of the construction of the works authorised by this Act, the appropriate authority shall repay to the highway authority the amount of any such expense reasonably so incurred.