ELIZABETH II
c. 12
Telecommunications
Act 1984
1984
CHAPTER 12
An Act to provide for the appointment and functions of a
Director General of Telecommunications; to abolish
British Telecommunications' exclusive privilege with
respect to telecommunications and to make new provision with respect to the provision of telecommunication services and certain related services; to make
provision, in substitution for the Telegraph Acts 1863
to 1916 and Part IV of the Post Office Act 1969, for the
matters there dealt with and related matters; to
provide for the vesting of property, rights and liabilities
of British Telecommunications in a company nominated
by the Secretary of State and the subsequent dissolution
of British Telecommunications ; to make provision
with respect to the finances of that company; to amend
the Wireless Telegraphy Acts 1949 to 1967, to make
further provision for facilitating enforcement of those
Acts and otherwise to make provision with respect to
wireless telegraphy apparatus and certain related
apparatus; to give statutory authority for the payment
out of money provided by Parliament of expenses
incurred by the Secretary of State in providing a radio
interference service ; to increase the maximum number
of members of British Telecommunications pending its
dissolution; and for connected purposes.
[12th April 1984]
IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows
BE
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