Where, by reason of the stopping up of any highway pursuant to this Order, any apparatus belonging to an undertaker and laid or placed in such highway or elsewhere is rendered derelict or unnecessary, Network Rail shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2), pay to that undertaker the then value of such apparatus (which shall thereupon become the property of Network Rail) and the reasonable cost of and incidental to the cutting off of such apparatus from any other apparatus, and of and incidental to the execution or doing of any works or things rendered necessary or expedient by reason of such apparatus being so rendered derelict or unnecessary.

Network Rail shall not under the provisions of this paragraph be required to pay to an undertaker the value of any apparatus rendered derelict or unnecessary if, to the reasonable satisfaction of the undertaker, other apparatus has at the expense of Network Rail been provided and laid and made ready for use in substitution for the apparatus so rendered derelict or unnecessary.