{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986/section-62.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/31",
  "legislation_title": "Airports Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-act-1986",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Provisions as to electronic communications apparatus.",
  "text": "(1) Part 10 of Schedule 3A of the Communications Act 2003 (the electronic communications code) (undertakers’ works) shall apply for the purposes—\n(a) of any work in pursuance of an order or direction under section 44 or 46 of the 1982 Act, as applied by section 59 above, and\n(b) of anything done with respect to a highway in pursuance of an order under section 48 of the 1982 Act (as so applied) to which subsection (2) below applies.\nto the person doing that work or, as the case may be, the highway authority; and, in the case of any such order as is mentioned in paragraph (b), any person entitled to land over which the highway passes shall be entitled to require the alteration of the electronic communications apparatus in question.\n(2) This subsection applies to an order under section 48 of the 1982 Act where the order provides—\n(a) for the stopping up or diversion of the highway, or\n(b) for the improvement of the highway where the Secretary of State is not the highway authority,\nand immediately before the order comes into operation any electronic communications apparatus is kept installed for the purposes of an electronic communications code network under, in, on, over, along or across the highway.\n(3) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, the operator of an electronic communications code network shall, in a case falling within subsection (2)(a), have the same rights in respect of any apparatus kept installed for the purposes of that network as if the order had not come into operation.\n(4) Part 10 of the electronic communications code shall not apply by virtue of subsection (2)(b) in relation to the alteration of any electronic communications apparatus where the alteration is for the purpose of major highway works, major bridge works or major transport works within the meaning of Part III of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 or, in Scotland, major works for roads purposes, major bridge works or major transport works within the meaning of Part IV of that Act.\n(5) Paragraph 68 (offence) shall be deemed to be omitted for the purposes of the application by this section of Part 10 of the code to the Secretary of State.\n(6) Paragraph 108(2) of the electronic communications code (alteration of apparatus to include moving, removal or replacement of apparatus) shall apply for the purposes of the preceding provisions of this section as it applies for the purposes of the code.\n(7) Part 6 of the electronic communications code (rights to require removal of apparatus) shall apply in relation to any entitlement conferred by this section to require the alteration, moving or replacement of any electronic communications apparatus as it applies in relation to an entitlement to require the removal of any such apparatus.\n(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(9) In the application of this section to Scotland, the reference to the highway authority shall be read as a reference to the roads authority as defined by section 151(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, and any reference to a highway shall be read as a reference to a road as defined in that provision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(1) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 25(2); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 62 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 80(b) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 62(2)(b) substituted (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), ss. 168(1), 170(1), Sch. 8 para. 118(2); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 62 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 80(c) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(3) substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 80(d) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(4) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 25(3); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 62 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 80(a) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(4) substituted (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8 para. 118(3); (E.W.) S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch.2 and (S.) S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(5) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 25(4)(a); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(5) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 25(4)(b); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in s. 62(6) substituted (28.12.2017 immediately after Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), Sch. 3 comes into force) by The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Primary Legislation) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1285), reg. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(7) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 25(6); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 62(8) repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 19(1) Note 1 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/8",
      "affecting_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1997/8",
      "affecting_title": "Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended (S)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1994/39",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/31/section/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:57:14.644210+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}