Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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for the purpose of the carrying on of their undertaking
shall include a reference to telecommunication apparatus
kept installed for the purposes of any such system ;
and for the purposes of this subsection, in this section (except
in the said paragraphs (a) and (b)) and in Schedule 5 to this Act
and section 27 below, references to statutory undertakers shall
have effect as references to the operator of any such system,
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references, in relation to such an operator, to the carrying on of
his undertaking shall have effect as references to the running of
the telecommunications code system in question and references
to the appropriate Minister shall have effect as references to the
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.".
(7) After section 36 (which, with section 35, makes provision for
the transfer etc. of the undertakings of development corporations)
there shall be inserted the following section :
" Applica36A. Sections 35 and 36 of this Act shall have effect
tion of ss. 35 as if
references to statutory undertakers included referand 36 to
operators of ences to the operator of any telecommunications code
certain
system and as if for this purposetelecom(a) references to a statutory undertaking were refermunication
ences to the running of such a system ; and
systems.
references
(b)
to the appropriate Minister were references to the Secretary of State for Trade and
Industry.".
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The Countryside Act 1968
(4) and (12) of section 41 of the Country-
1968 c. 41.
48.-(1) In subsections
side Act 1968 (certain byelaws not to interfere with exercise of
certain functions), 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 ".
(2) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to that Act (saving for rights
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.".
1968 c. 47.
The Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968
49. In section 22(1) of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 (Part
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of that Act not to authorise interference with carrying on of a statutory undertaking), for the words from " without " onwards there shall
be substituted the words " or the running of a telecommunications
code system without the consent of the statutory undertakers concerned or, as the case may be, of the operator of that system.".
The Post Office Act 1969
1969 c. 48.
In section 7(1) of the Post Office Act
1969 (powers of the
Post Office), for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the following
50.
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paragraph:
" (c) to perform services for any public telecommunications
operator or any subsidiary of any such operator ; ".