Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
174
Sca. 4
1980 c. 21.
(3) In section 133(2)(a) of the 1973 Act (exceptions to general
restriction on disclosure of information), after the words " the Director ", there shall be inserted the words " the Director General of
Telecommunications," and after the words " the Competition Act
1980 " there shall be inserted the words " or the Telecommunications
Act 1984,".
(4) In paragraph
7 of Part I of Schedule 5 to the 1973 Act (which
specifies the services in respect of which references under section 14
of that Act are restricted), for the words from " in " onwards there
shall be substituted the words " in paragraphs (a) to (d) of section
4(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1984 ".
S.I. 1973/69
(N.I.
1).
The Drainage (Northern Ireland) Order 1973
3 of Schedule 9 to the Drainage (Northern
Ireland) Order 1973, there shall be substituted the following paragraph :
" 3.--(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, nothing
in this Order or any scheme made thereunder shall affect any
rights conferred by or in accordance with the telecommunications
code on the operator of a telecommunications code system or
authorise the Department to interfere with any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of any such
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system.
(2) Where for the purposes of carrying out any scheme, the
Department diverts or closes any public road, or any part of a
public road, under, in, on, over, along or across which there is
any telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes
of a telecommunications code system, the operator of that system
shall have the same powers in respect of that apparatus as if
such road or part had not been diverted or closed : but the
Department or any person in whom the site of that road, or part
of a road, is vested shall be entitled to require the alteration
of the apparatus.
(3) Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code (which
provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the
alteration of telecommunication apparatus) shall apply to the
Department for the purposes of the carrying out of any drainage scheme or of a confirmed scheme under Schedule 7.
(4) Paragraph 1(2) of the telecommunications code (alteration
of apparatus to include moving, removal or replacement of apparatus) shall apply for the purposes of the preceding provisions
of this paragraph as it applies for the purposes of the code.
(5) Paragraph 21 of the telecommunications code (restriction
on removal of apparatus) shall apply in relation to any entitlement conferred by this paragraph to require the alteration, moving or replacement of any telecommunication apparatus as it
applies in relation to an entitlement to require the removal of
any such apparatus.".
(2) Where in any case a public road or part of a public road is
diverted or closed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3
of the said Schedule 9 before the appointed day, that paragraph