Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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PART
VII
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1945 c. 42.
1980 c. 45.
S.I. 1973/70
(N.I. 2).
Power of Post
Office to
provide
telecommunication
services etc.
1969 c 48.
(c) in Northern Ireland, means the Department of
the Environment for Northern Ireland ;
water main
(a) in England and Wales, means a main within
the meaning of Schedule 3 to the Water Act 1945;
(b) in Scotland, means a main within the meaning
of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980; and
(c) in Northern Ireland, means a main within the
meaning of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northem Ireland) Order 1973.
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99.-(1) In section 7(1) of the Post Office Act 1969 (powers
of the Post Office) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the
following paragraph" (bb) to provide, in such parts of post offices as are open
to the public (whether for the transaction of postal
business or otherwise), such services provided by means
of telecommunication systems as it thinks fit ; ".
(2) In section 290) of that Act (exclusion of liability of Post
Office etc. in relation to telepost services) paragraph (c) shall be
omitted.
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(3) In section 86(1) of that Act (interpretation of Part III),
for the definitions of " telecommunication system " and " telepost services " there shall be substituted the following defini-
tions-
'' telecommunication
''
system " has the meaning given by
subsection (1) of section 4 of the Telecommunications
Act 1984 (read with subsection (2) of that section) ;
telepost service " means a service whereby the Post Office
does all or any of the following things, namely(a) receives or collects in whatever form communications which are to be sent by means of a
telecommunication system ;
(b) sends or receives by means of such a system
communications which have been received or collected, or are to be delivered, by it in whatever form ;
and
(c) delivers in whatever form communications
which have been sent by means of such a system.
Membership
of British
Telecommunications.
100.-(1) In section 1(4) of the 1981 Act (composition of
British Telecommunications) for the word " twelve " there shall
be substituted the word " fourteen ".
(2) This section shall cease to have effect on the dissolution of
British Telecommunications.