Airports Act 1986

62 Provisions as to telecommunication apparatus

(1) Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code (undertakers' works) shall apply for the purposes—

(a) of any work in pursuance of an order or direction under section 44 or 46 of the 1982 Act, as applied by section 59 above, and

(b) of anything done with respect to a highway in pursuance of an order under section 48 of the 1982 Act (as so applied) to which subsection (2) below applies,

to the person doing that work or, as the case may be, the highway authority; and, in the case of any such order as is mentioned in paragraph (b), any person entitled to land over which the highway passes shall be entitled to require the alteration of the telecommunications apparatus in question.

(2) This subsection applies to an order under section 48 of the 1982 Act where the order provides—

(a) for the stopping up or diversion of the highway, or

(b) unless the highway is a trunk road, for the improvement of the highway,

and immediately before the order comes into operation any telecommunication apparatus is kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system under, in, on, over, along or across the highway.

(3) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, the operator of a telecommunications code system shall, in a case falling within subsection (2)(a), have the same rights in respect of any apparatus kept installed for the purposes of that system as if the order had not come into operation.

(4) Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code shall not apply by virtue of subsection (2)(b) in relation to the alteration of any telecommunication apparatus where the alteration is for the purpose of authority's works as defined in Part II of the [1950 c. 39.] Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950.

(5) Sub-paragraph (8) of paragraph 23 (offence) shall be deemed to be omitted for the purposes of the application by this section of that paragraph to the Secretary of State.

(6) Paragraph 1(2) of the telecommunications code (alteration of apparatus to include moving, removal or replacement of apparatus) shall apply for the purposes of the preceding provisions of this section as it applies for the purposes of the code.

(7) Paragraph 21 of the telecommunications code (restriction on removal of apparatus) shall apply in relation to any entitlement conferred by this section to require the alteration, moving or replacement of any telecommunication apparatus as it applies in relation to an entitlement to require the removal of any such apparatus.

(8) In this section " the telecommunications code " and other expressions defined by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 to the [1984 c. 12.] Telecommunications Act 1984 shall be construed in accordance with that provision.

(9) In the application of this section to Scotland, the reference to the highway authority shall be read as a reference to the roads authority as defined by section 151(1) of the [1984 c. 54.] Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, and any reference to a highway shall be read as a reference to a road as defined in that provision.