Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
public telecommunications operators and subsidiaries
of such operators ; " ; and
(b) in the definition of " the relevant purpose ", for the words
" British Telecommunications or a subsidiary of British
Telecommunications " there shall be substituted the words
" a public telecommunications operator or a subsidiary of
such an operator ".
(2) In section 85(1) of that Act (general interpretation) the definition of " outside persons " shall cease to have effect.
The New Towns Act 1981
Sca. 4
1981 c. 64.
79.-(1) The New Towns Act 1981 shall be amended in accordance
with the following provisions of this paragraph.
(2) In section 16(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 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 section 19(2) (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.".
(4) For section 24 (which contains provision with respect to telegraphic lines where a public right of way is extinguished under that
Act) there shall be substituted the following section :
" 24.-(1) Where an order under section 23 of this Act extinguishing a public right of way is made on the application
of a development corporation or local highway authority, and
at the time of the publication of the notice required by subsection (2) of that section any telecommunication apparatus was
kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code
system under, in, 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
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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 in respect of the whole or any part of the
apparatus after the end of that period if before the end
of that period the operator of the system has given
notice to the corporation or authority of his intention
to remove the apparatus or that part of it, as the case
may be;
(b) the operator of the system may by notice given in that
behalf to the corporation or authority not later than
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