7.—(1) Not less than 28 days before commencing to execute any works that are referred to in paragraph 5(2) and are near to or will or may affect any apparatus the removal of which has not been required by the Council under paragraph 5(2), the Council shall submit to the undertaker in question a plan, section and description of the works to be executed.
(2) Those works shall be executed only in accordance with the plan, section and description submitted under sub-paragraph (1) and in accordance with such reasonable requirements as may be made in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) by the undertaker for the alteration or otherwise for the protection of the apparatus, or for securing access thereto and the undertaker shall be entitled by its officer to watch and inspect the execution of those works.
(3) Any requirements made by the undertakers under sub-paragraph (2) shall be made within 21 days after the submission to them of a plan, section and description under sub-paragraph (1).
(4) If an undertaker within 21 days after the submission to them of a plan, section and description shall, in consequence of the works proposed by the Council, reasonably requires the removal of any apparatus and gives written notice to the Council of that requirement, the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall apply as if the removal of the apparatus had been required by the Council under paragraph 5(2).
(5) Nothing in this paragraph shall preclude the Council from submitting at any time or from time to time, but in no case less than 28 days before commencing the execution of any works, a new plan, section and description of the works in lieu of the plan, section and description previously submitted, and thereupon the provisions of this paragraph shall apply in respect of the new plan, section and description.