Part 4Marine licensing
Chapter 2Exemptions and special cases
Special provisions in certain cases
80Electronic communications apparatus
1
A licensing authority must not grant a marine licence to carry on any activity which amounts to or involves the exercise of a right conferred by paragraph 11 of the Electronic Communications Code unless it is satisfied that adequate compensation arrangements have been made.
2
For the purposes of subsection (1) “adequate compensation arrangements” are adequate arrangements for compensating any persons—
a
who appear to that authority to be owners of interests in the tidal water or lands on, under or over which the right is to be exercised,
b
for any loss or damage sustained by those persons in consequence of the activity being carried on.
3
In paragraph 11 of the Electronic Communications Code omit—
a
sub-paragraphs (3) to (10);
b
in sub-paragraph (11), the definition of “remedial works”.
4
In this section “the Electronic Communications Code” means the code set out in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12).