The Acquisition of Land Act 1981
80(1)At the end of section 28 of the [1981 c. 67.] Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (acquisition of rights over land by the creation of new rights) there shall be added the following paragraph: —
“(f)section 34(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984”.
(2)In section 32 of that Act (power to extinguish certain rights of way), after subsection (6) (which contains a saving in relation to the apparatus of statutory undertakers) there shall be inserted the following subsection: —
“(6A)In subsection (6) above the reference to apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers shall include a reference to telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system and in relation to any such apparatus—
(a)the references to the undertakers shall have effect as references to the operator of the system in question ; and
(b)the reference to the appropriate Minister shall have effect as a reference to the Secretary of State.”.