The M1British Telecommunications Act 1981U.K.
Marginal Citations
78(1)In section 63(3) of the 1981 Act (activities requiring consultation with the Secretary of State)—
(a)immediately before the definition of “the relevant period" there shall be inserted the following definition:—
““outside persons” means persons other than the Post Office, wholly owned subsidiaries of the Post Office, public telecommunications operators and subsidiaries of such operators;”; and
(b)in the definition of “the relevant purpose", for the words “British Telecommunications or a subsidiary of British Telecommunications" there shall be substituted the words “a public telecommunications operator or a subsidiary of such an operator".
(2)In section 85(1) of that Act (general interpretation) the definition of “outside persons" shall cease to have effect.