British Telecommunications Act 1981

74 (1) The [1980 c. 66.] Highways Act 1980 shall, as from the appointed day, be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs.

(2) References to the Post Office in sections 35, 142(5), 157(9), 177 and 181(7) (protection for apparatus) shall be construed as referring to the Corporation ; and the reference to the Post Office in section 174(5) shall be construed as including a reference to the Corporation.

(3) The references to the Post Office in section 334(1) (savings for the Post Office) shall be construed as referring to the Corporation.

(4) Section 334(2) shall, in relation to a conveyance on or after the appointed day or an order coming into force on or after that day, have effect as if for the reference to the Post Office there were substituted a reference to the Corporation and for the words " the date " there were substituted the words " at the beginning of the day ".

(5) The reference to the Post Office in section 334(3) shall be construed as referring to the Corporation.

(6) Section 334(4) shall have effect as if the first reference to a telegraphic line belonging to, or used by, the Post Office included a reference to such a line of the Corporation, as if for the words " the Post Office", in all places (except the first and third) where they occur, there were substituted the words " British Telecommunications " and as if—

(a) in relation to any such period mentioned in paragraph (a) as begins to run before and is current on the appointed day, for the words " the Post Office " (where secondly occurring in that paragraph) and for the word " they " in paragraph (b) there were substituted the words " the Post Office or British Telecommunications ";

(b) in relation to any such period so mentioned as begins to run on or after that day, for the words " the Post Office " (where secondly occurring in paragraph (a)) there were substituted the words " British Telecommunications ".

(7) The reference in section 334(5) to the Post Office shall be construed as referring to the Corporation.

(8) Section 334(6) and (7) shall, in relation to an order coming into force on or after the appointed day, have effect as if for the references to the Post Office there were substituted references to the Corporation and for the words " immediately before the date ",

in both places where they occur, there were substituted the words " at the beginning of the day ".

(9) Section 334(10) shall, in relation to an order coming into force on or before the appointed day, have effect as if for the second reference to the Post Office there were substituted a reference to the Corporation and, in relation to an order coming into force after that day, have effect as if for each reference to the Post Office there were substituted a reference to the Corporation.