Public rights of way and permissive paths
14.—(1) The public rights of way and permissive paths listed in column (2) of Schedule 7 (public rights of way and permissive paths to be extinguished) shown marked on the relevant access plans shall be extinguished—
(a)once the undertaker has provided the alternative way or path as indicated on the access plans; and
(b)as at the expiry of the notice given further to paragraph (2) of this article.
(2) No less than 28 days prior to the extinguishment of each of the public rights of way and permissive paths listed in column (2) of Schedule 7 shown marked on the relevant access plans the undertaker shall erect a site notice at each end of the section to be extinguished (as set out in column (3) of Schedule 7).
(3) Subject to the consent of the owner and occupier of any affected land, the undertaker and the local highway authority may agree that the alternative way or path to be provided under this article shall take a different route or have a different legal status than that indicated on the access plans; and a way or path provided in accordance with such agreement shall be taken to have been provided in accordance with the access plans for the purposes of paragraph (2).
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the undertaker shall be taken to have provided the alternative way or path when –
(a)the way or path has been completed:
(i)in accordance with any obligation under article 12 to complete the way or path to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority, or
(ii)if no such obligation arises, to the reasonable satisfaction of the local highway authority.