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(b) the reference in paragraph (b) of that sub-paragraph to
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apparatus vested in or belonging to statutory undertakers for the purpose of the carrying on of their
undertaking shall include a reference to telecommunica-
tion apparatus kept installed for the purposes of any
such system ;
and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, in this paragraph
(except in the said paragraphs (a) and (b)) and in paragraphs
41 and 45 of this Schedule, references to statutory undertakers
shall have effect as references to the operator of any such
system, 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.".
The Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1977
S.I. 1977/596
(Ni. 7).
For paragraph (2) of Article 29 of the Gas (Northern Ireland)
Order 1977 (saving in respect of the provisions of the Telegraph
Acts 1863 to 1916), there shall be substituted the following para68.
graph :
-"
(2) Nothing in this Order or in any instrument made thereunder shall affect any right conferred by or in accordance with
the telecommunications code on the operator of a telecommunications code system or authorise undertakers to alter or
interfere with any telecommunication apparatus kept installed
for the purposes of any such system.".
S.I. 1977/2157
(N.I. 28).
1979 c. 11.
The Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977
69. Article 50(l)(a)(iii) of and paragraph 1 of Part III of Schedule
16 to the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (rating in Northern
Ireland) shall have effect as if, instead of referring to section 37 of
the 1981 Act, they referred to section 33 of this Act.
The Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979
12(6) of the Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979
70.-(1) In section
1899 c. 19.
(which applies section 14 of the Schedule to the Electric Lighting
(Clauses) Act 1899 so far as it relates to British Telecommunications),
for the words from " so " to " apply " there shall be substituted the
words " so far as it relates to the operator of a telecommunications
code system apply ".
(2) For paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to that Act (electricity supply
to railways not to interfere with certain telegraphic lines etc.) there
shall be substituted the following paragraph :
" 5. Without prejudice to any other enactment providing for
the protection of telecommunication apparatus kept installed
for the purposes of a telecommunications code system (and subject to the terms of any agreement made under section 98 of
the Telecommunications Act 1984 with respect to the keeping
of any telecommunication apparatus in a conduit or structure
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