Telecommunications Act 1984

c. 12

apparatus) shall apply for the purposes of subsection (1) above
as it applies for the purposes of that code.".

The Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961
1961 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

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ScH. 4

1961 c. 41.

39.-(1) The Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act

(2) In section 3(4) (flood prevention works affecting statutory
undertakers to be carried out only with their consent, which shall

not be unreasonably refused), for the words " except with the consent
in writing of the statutory undertakers " there shall be substituted
the words " or any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for
the purposes of a telecommunications code system or the running of
any such system, except with the consent in writing of the statutory
undertakers or, as the case may be, the operator of the system ".
(3) In the proviso to paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 (temporary works
not to interfere with certain telegraphic lines etc.), for the words
from " telegraphic line " onwards there shall be substituted the words
" telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a
telecommunications code system or with the service provided by
any such system.".
(4) In paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2 (which specifies the persons on
whom certain notices are to be served), for paragraph (e) there shall
be substituted the following paragraph :
" (e) the operator of a telecommunications code system the running of which may be affected by any of the operations or
by any alteration in the flow of water caused by the operations ".

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The Public Health Act 1961
1961 c. 64.
In section 29B(3) of the Public Health Act 1961 (which prevents
interference with the apparatus or works of statutory undertakers),
at the end there shall be inserted the words "or with any telecommunication apparatus kept installed, or works executed, for the
purposes of a telecommunications code system.".
40.

The Pipe-lines Act 1962
41. In section 40 of the Pipe-lines Act 1962 (avoidance of interference with telegraphic lines etc.)(a) in subsection (1), for the words from " telegraphic line" to

" such line " there shall be substituted the words " telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a
telecommunications code system or with the service provided by any such system " ; and
(b) for subsections (2) and (3) there shall be substituted the following subsection:
"(2) Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code
(which provides a procedure for certain cases where works
involve the alteration of telecommunication apparatus)
shall apply, for the purposes of works in pursuance of a
compulsory rights order, to the person authorised to
execute those works.".

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1962 a 58.

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