Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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PART
II
Enforcement
provisions.
30.-(1) The Director or a relevant authority shall have power
to purchase telecommunication apparatus, and to authorise any
of his or their officers to purchase telecommunication apparatus
on his or their behalf, for the purpose of ascertaining whether
sections 28 and 29 above and orders made under those sections (in this section referred to as " the relevant provisions ") are
being complied with.
(2) The Director shall have power to enforce the relevant provisions and every local weights and measures authority in Great
Britain shall have power to enforce those provisions within their
area ; but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as authorising the Director or a local weights and measures authority to
institute proceedings in Scotland for an offence.
(3)
In this section " relevant authority " means(a) in relation to Great Britain, the Secretary of
State or
a local weights and measures authority on whom a
power to enforce the relevant provisions is conferred by
subsection (2) above
(b)
Rating in
England and
Wales.
1974 c. 7.
;
in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of
Economic Development for Northern Ireland.
Rating of telecommunications operators
31.-(1) In Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1974
(hereditaments to which section 19(1) of that Act applies) for
paragraph 5A (hereditaments occupied by British Telecommunications by certain property used for the purposes of telecommunication services) there shall be substituted the following para-
graph-
" 5A. Any hereditament occupied by a telecommunications operator (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1984) by any such property as follows, namely,
posts, wires, underground cables and ducts, telephone kiosks
and other equipment being property used for the purpose
of providing telecommunication services."
(2) Where an order made under the said section 19 applies to
hereditaments occupied by a telecommunications operator
by any such property as aforesaid, that operator shall be treated,
for the purposes of the law relating to rating, as not being a
public utility undertaking.
(3)
Rating in
Scotland.
1975 c. 30.
This section extends to England and Wales only.
32.-(1) In paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 (lands and heritages to which section