The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003

Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 8)

13.—(1) This paragraph applies to the following provisions of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997(1)—

(a) section 194(2) (exception to extinguishment of rights over land compulsorily acquired);

(b) section 196(3) (exception to power to override servitudes and other rights);

(c) section 205(3) (provision of amenity for road reserved to pedestrians);

(d) section 212 (telecommunication apparatus);

(e) sections 225 to 227 (extinguishment of rights of statutory undertakers etc.); and

(f) sections 232 and 233 (compensation to statutory undertakers).

(2) In the provisions to which this paragraph applies—

(a) for “a telecommunications code system” and “any telecommunications code system”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “an electronic communications code network”;

(b) for “the telecommunications code system”, wherever occurring (except in the expression “the running of the telecommunications code system”), there shall be substituted “the electronic communications code network”;

(c) for “the running of the telecommunications code system”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “the provision of the electronic communications code network”;

(d) for “telecommunication apparatus”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “electronic communications apparatus”;

(e) for “telecommunications code”, wherever occurring (except in the expression “telecommunications code system”), there shall be substituted “electronic communications code”; and

(f) for “system”, wherever occurring (except in the expression “telecommunications code system”), there shall be substituted “network”.

(3) In section 99(1) of that Act, in the definition of “statutory undertakers” for “public telecommunications operators” there shall be substituted “electronic communications code operators and former PTOs”.

(4) In paragraph 1(1)(a)(ii) of Schedule 14 to that Act (blighted land), for the words from “establishment” to “system” there shall be substituted “provision by an electronic communications operator of an electronic communications code network or the provision by a former PTO of a public electronic communications network or a public electronic communications service”.

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1997 c. 8.