Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
and for the purposes of this subsection, in this section (except
in the said paragraphs (a) and (b)) and in Schedule 7 to this
Act and section 27 below, 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.",
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Scx. 4
(7) In section 39 (power of development corporation to transfer
undertakings), after subsection (6) there shall be inserted the follow-
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ing subsection :
" (7) This section shall have effect as if references to statu-
tory undertakers included references to the operator of any telecommunications code system and as if for this purpose(a) references to a statutory undertaking were references
to the running of such a system ; and
(b) references to the appropriate Minister were references
to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.".
The Acquisition of Land Act 1981
1981 c. 67.
80.-(1) At the end of section 28 of the Acquisition of Land Act
1981 (acquisition of rights over land by the creation of new rights)
there shall be added the following paragraph:"'(f) section 34(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984 ".
(2) In section 32 of that Act (power to extinguish certain rights
of way), after subsection (6) (which contains a saving in relation
to the apparatus of statutory undertakers) there shall be inserted the
following subsection :
" (6A) In subsection (6) above the reference to apparatus
belonging to statutory undertakers shall include a reference to
telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of
a telecommunications code system and in relation to any such
-
apparatus-
(a) the references to the undertakers shall have effect as
references to the operator of the system in question ; and
(b) the reference to the appropriate Minister shall have effect
as a reference to the Secretary of State.".
81.
In section
IBA)-
The Broadcasting Act 1981
Broadcasting Act 1981 (powers of the
1981 c. 68.
3 of the
(a) in subsection (1) (c), for the words " British Telecommunications " there shall be substituted the words " operators of
telecommunications code systems " ; and
(b) in subsection (7), for the words " section 15 of the British
Telecommunications Act 1981 " there shall be substituted
the words " section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 ".
H2
1981 c. 38.