c. 12
198
Sca. 4
1878 c. 76.
Telecommunications Act 1984
(6) In this paragraph "telegraphic line" means any apparatus
(howsoever described) which is a telegraphic line within the meaning
of the Telegraph Act 1878.
Saving in respect of o$ences under section 5
90. Nothing in a local Act passed after but in the same Session
as this Act shall authorise the doing of anything which would constitute on offence under section 5 of this Act.
Section 109.
SCHEDULE
5
GENERAL TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS
PART
I
PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS COMING INTO FORCE ON APPOINTED DAY
1.-(1)
Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, a
licence granted, or having effect as if granted, by the Secretary of State
or British Telecommunications under section 15(1) of the 1981 Act
which is effective on the appointed day shall have effect as if granted
by the Secretary of State under section 7 of this Act, and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.
(2) Where immediately before the appointed day British Telecommunications has in its possession particulars of licences granted,
or having effect as if granted, by it under section 15(1) of the 1981
Act, British Telecommunications shall, as soon as practicable after
that day, send to the Secretary of State(a) in the case of each of those licences which is contained in
a single document, that document or a copy of that document or of such parts of it as contain the provisions of the
licence ; and
(b) in the case of each of those licences which is not so contained, a bundle of documents consisting of either the
original or a copy of, or of the relevant part of, every
document in the possession of British Telecommunications
which is capable of being relied on as evidence of, or of
any provision of, that licence.
(3) Where a licence has effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)
above as if granted by the Secretary of State under section 7 of
this
Act-
(a) sections 7(7) and (8) and 19(2) of this Act shall not apply in
relation to that licence ;
(b) any provision of that licence made, or having effect as if
m:Vie, by virtue of section 15(4) of the 1981 Act, being a
provision under which any amount would fall to be paid
after the appointed day to British Telecommunications,
shall have effect as if it required that amount to be paid to
the Secretary of State ;
(c) the Secretary of State may revoke that licence at any time
before the end of the relevant period and any provision
of that licence under or in accordance with which the