c. 12
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1971c.78.
Telecommunications Act 1984
alteration of telecommunication apparatus) shall apply to a
person authorised by a harbour order to execute any works, for
the purposes of those works.".
The Town and Country Planning Act 1971
53.-(1) The Town and Country Planning Act
1971 shall be
amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph-
(2) The power to make a development order under section 24
(development orders) shall include power(a) to repeal paragraph 83 of Schedule 24 to the said Act of
1971 and sub-paragraph (12) below ; and
(b) to make any such provision as is mentioned in that section
in relation to cases in which planning permission is
required by virtue of that repeal ;
and the power conferred by virtue of this sub-paragraph shall include
power to make different provision for different cases.
(3) In section 118(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 light conferred by or in accordance with the telecommunications code on the operator of a telecommunications coda
system or to any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the
purposes of any such system.".
(4) In the proviso to section 127(1) (under which the power to
override easements 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.".
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(5) After section 191 (purchase notice in other cases) there shall
be inserted the following section :
"Public
191A. In the preceding provisions of this Part of this
telecomAct
and in Schedule 19 to this Act the references to stations
operators. tutm'y undertakers shall be deemed to include references
to a public telecommunications operator.".
(6) In section 192(l)(a) (scope of provisions relating to the effect
of planning proposals on the interests of owner-occupiers), for the
words from " functions " to " National Coal Board " there shall be
substituted the words " of the following functions, that is to say,
those of a government department, local authority or statutory
undertakers, or of the National Coal Board or the establishment or
running by a public telecommunications operator of a telecommunication system " ; and, accordingly, in section 205(1) (definition of
" appropriate authority ") after the word " body ", there shall be
inserted the words " or person ".
(7) For section 220 (provisions as to telegraphic lines) there shall
be substituted the following section:
" 220.-(1) Where in pursuance of an order under section 209,
211 or 212 of this Act a highway is stopped up or diverted and
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