SCHEDULE 17Protective Provisions

PART 3For the Protection of Cadent Gas Limited as Gas Undertaker

Acquisition of landI132

1

Regardless of any provision in this Order or anything shown on the land plans or contained in the book of reference to the Order, the promoter may not acquire or appropriate any land interest or apparatus or appropriate, acquire, extinguish, interfere with or override any easement and/or other interest of Cadent otherwise than by agreement

2

As a condition of agreement between the parties in sub-paragraph (1), prior to the carrying out of any part of the authorised works (or in such other timeframe as may be agreed between Cadent and the promoter) that are subject to the requirements of this Part that will cause any conflict with or breach the terms of any easement and/or other legal or land interest of the undertaker and/or affects the provisions of any enactment or agreement regulating the relations between Cadent and the promoter in respect of any apparatus laid or erected in land belonging to or secured by the promoter, the promoter must as Cadent reasonably and necessarily requires enter into such deeds of consent upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed between Cadent and the promoter acting reasonably and which must be no less favourable on the whole to Cadent unless otherwise agreed by the undertaker, and it will be the responsibility of the promoter to procure and/or secure the consent and entering into of such deeds and variations by all other third parties with an interest in the land at that time who are affected by such authorised works.

3

The promoter and Cadent agree that where there is any inconsistency or duplication between the provisions set out in this Part relating to the relocation and/or removal of apparatus/including but not limited to the payment of costs and expenses relating to such relocation and/or removal of apparatus) and the provisions of any existing easement, rights, agreements and licences granted, used, enjoyed or exercised by the undertaker and/or other enactments relied upon by the undertaker as of right or other use in relation to the apparatus, then the provisions in this Schedule prevail.

4

Any agreement or consent granted by the undertaker under paragraph 35 or any other paragraph of this Part of this Schedule, must not be taken to constitute agreement under sub-paragraph (1).