Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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the licence mentioned in paragraph (a) of section 10(1) of
this Act or, as the case may require, the telecommunication
system which the Secretary of State or the Northern Ireland
department in question is running or proposing to run ;
" railway " includes a light railway ;
" the statutory purposes " means the purposes of establishing
and running the operator's system ;
" street " has the meaning given by section 1(3) of the said Act
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of 1950 ;
" structure " does not include a building ;
" telecommunication apparatus " includes
any apparatus falling
within the definition in section 4(3) of this Act and any
apparatus not so falling which is designed or adapted for use
in connection with the running of a telecommunication
system and, in particular(a) any line, that is to say, any wire, cable, tube, pipe
or other similar thing (including its casing or coating)
which is so designed or adapted ; and
(b) any structure, pole or other thing in, on, by or
from which any telecommunication apparatus is or may
be installed, supported, carried or suspended ;
and references to the installation of telecommunication apparatus shall be construed accordingly.
(2) In this code, references to the alteration of any apparatus include references to the moving, removal or replacement of the
apparatus.
(3)
In relation to any land which, otherwise than in connection
a street on that land, is divided horizontally into different parcels,
the references in this code to a place over or under the land shall
with
have effect in relation to each parcel as not including references to
any place in a different parcel.
1950 c. 39.
(4) For the removal of doubt, it is hereby declared that for the
purposes of this code a street within the meaning of the Public
Utilities Street Works Act 1950 includes, where the street is a highway
which passes over a bridge or through a tunnel, that bridge or tunnel.
(5) For the purposes of the definition in this paragraph of " street "
the Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 shall be deemed to extend
to Northern Ireland.
Agreement required to confer right to execute works etc.
2.-(1) The agreement in writing of the occupier for the time being
of any land shall be required for conferring on the operator a
right for the statutory purposes(a) to execute any works on that land for or in connection with
the installation, maintenance, adjustment, repair or alteration of telecommunication apparatus ; or
(b) to keep telecommunication apparatus installed on, under
or over that land ; or