Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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Scn. 4
in relation to an entitlement to require the removal of any such
apparatus.".
(3) In relation to any such order as is mentioned in the said subsection (7) coming into force before the appointed day, that subsection shall have effect, notwithstanding any repeal made by this Act,
as it has effect immediately before the coming into force of subparagraph (2) above.
(4) In subsection (6) of section 54 of the said Act of 1967 (byelaws for the protection of the countryside etc. not to interfere
with the exercise of functions by statutory undertakers), at the end
there shall be inserted the words "or with the running of a telecommunications code system or the exercise of any right conferred
by or in accordance with the telecommunications code on the operator of any such system.".
1968 c. 16.
The New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968
1968 shall be amended in
47.-(1) The New Towns (Scotland) Act
accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.
(2) In section 14(2) (under which provisions as to extinguishment
of rights over land do not apply in relation to rights and apparatus
of statutory undertakers), at the end there shall be inserted the words
" or to any right conferred by or in accordance with the telecommunications code on the operator of a telecommunications code system or to any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the
purposes of any such system.".
(3) In the proviso to section 19(1) (under which the power to override
servitudes etc. shall not be used to interfere with rights vested in
or belonging to statutory undertakers), at the end there shall be
inserted the words " or a right conferred by or in accordance with
the telecommunications code on the operator of a telecommunications code system.".
(4) For section 24 (which contains provision with respect to
telegraphic lines where a public right of way is extinguished under
that Act) there shall be substituted the following section :
" 24.-(1) Where an order under section 23 of this Act extinguishing a public right of way is made on the application of a
development corporation or local highway authority, and at the
time of the publication of the notice required by subsection (2)
of that section any telecommunication apparatus was kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system
under, in, on, over, along or across the land over which the
right of way subsisted(a) the power of the operator of the system to remove
the apparatus shall, notwithstanding the making of the
order, be exercisable at any time not later than the
end of the period of three months from the date on
which the right of way is extinguished, and shall be
exercisable in respect of the whole or any part of the
apparatus after the end of that period if before the
end of that period the operator of the system has given
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