Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
178
Scu. 4
1980 c. 21,
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 ".
The Land Drainage Act 1976
1976 c. 70.
66.-(1) In section 23(4) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 (notice
of arrangements to be given to British Telecommunications and to be
published), for the words from " give " to " like notice " there shall
be substituted the words " publish a notice of their intention ".
(2) In section 112(2) of that Act (which specifies the undertakings
whose property and works are not to be interfered with by work
under that Act), after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following paragraph :
(e) any undertaking consisting in the running of a telecommunications code system.".
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1976 c. 75.
The Development of Rural Wales Act 1976
67.-(1) Schedule 3 to the Development of Rural Wales Act 1976
shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this
paragraph.
(2) In sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 32 (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 sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 35 (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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(4) For paragraph 39 (provisions as to telegraphic lines) there shall
be substituted the following paragraph :
" 39.-(1) Where an order under paragraph 38 above extinguishing a public right of way is made on the application of the
Board or a local highway authority, and at the time of the publication of the notice required by sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph any telecommunication apparatus was kept installed for
the purposes of a telecommunications code system under, in,
upon, 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