Power to stop up and divert highways

(1) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister responsible for highways, if he is satisfied that it is necessary so to do in order to secure the safe and efficient use for purposes of civil aviation of any premises used with the approval of the Minister for the testing of aircraft, or of any aerodrome, by Order authorize the stopping up or diversion of any highway. (2) An Order under this section may provide for all or any of the following matters– (a) for securing the provision or improvement of any highway so far as the Minister responsible for highways considers such provision or improvement necessary or desirable in consequence of any such stopping up or diversion as aforesaid; (b) for the retention or removal of any poles, cables, mains, pipes, wires or similar apparatus placed along, across, over or under any highway stopped up or diverted under the Order, and for the extinguishment, modification or preservation of any rights as to the use or maintenance of that apparatus; (c) if any highway is to be provided or improved under the Order, for authorizing or requiring the provision of any such apparatus as aforesaid along, across, over or under that highway, in lieu of any apparatus removed from a highway pursuant to the Order, and for conferring rights as to the use or maintenance of apparatus so provided. (3) An Order under this section may contain such consequential, incidental or/and supplemental provisions as 26 Civil Aviation Act appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the Order. (4) An Order under this section shall be subject to negative resolution.