s 210 Recovery of costs of making orders.
(1) Where a person requests a local authority to make an order to which this subsection applies, the local authority may require him, as a condition of their compliance with the request, to make such provision as they consider reasonable as regards any costs to be incurred by them in so complying. (2) The orders to which subsection (1) applies are orders under any of the following enactments— (a) section 203 (orders extinguishing the right to use vehicles on a road); (b) section 207 (orders authorising the stopping up or diversion of certain roads); (c) section 208 (orders authorising the stopping up or diversion of footpaths or bridleways); (d) section 34 of the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967 (orders as regards the closure of public paths); and (e) section 35 of that Act (orders as regards the diversion of public paths).