{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-northern-ireland-order-1994/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-northern-ireland-order-1994/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1994/426",
  "legislation_title": "The Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/airports-northern-ireland-order-1994",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Provisions as to electronic communications apparatus",
  "text": "(1) Part 10 of Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003 (the electronic communications code) (undertaker's works) shall apply for the purposes—\n(a) of any work in pursuance of an order or direction under Article 7 or 8;\n(b) of anything done with respect to a road in pursuance of an order under Article 10 to which paragraph (2) applies,\nto the person doing that work or, as the case may be, the Department; and, in the case of any such order as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), any person having an estate in land over which the road passes shall be entitled to require the alteration of the electronic communications apparatus in question.\n(2) This paragraph applies to an order under Article 10 where the order provides—\n(a) for the stopping up or diversion of the road; or\n(b) unless the road is a trunk road or special road, for the improvement of the road,\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 road.\n(3) Subject to the preceding provisions of this Article, the operator of an electronic communications code network shall, in a case falling within paragraph (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(3A) Part 10 of the electronic communications code shall not apply by virtue of paragraph (2)(b) in relation to the alteration of any electronic communications apparatus where the alteration is for the purpose of major work works, major bridge works or major transport works within the meaning of the Street Works (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.\n(4) Paragraph 68 of the electronic communications code (offence) shall be deemed to be omitted for the purposes of the application by this Article of Part 10 of the code to the Department.\n(5) Paragraph 108(2) of the electronic communications code (alteration of apparatus to include moving, removal or replacement or apparatus) shall apply for the purposes of the preceding provisions of this Article as it applies for the purposes of the code.\n(6) Part 6 of the electronic communications code (rights to require removal of apparatus) shall apply in relation to any entitlement conferred by this Article 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(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(1) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 35(2); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "2003 c. 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1995 NI 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(3A) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 35(3); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(4) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 35(4)(a); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(4) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 35(4)(b); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in art. 12(5) 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), Sch. 1 para. 30(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(6) substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 35(6); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Art. 12(7) repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 for specified purposes) by The Communications Act 2003 c. 21, Sch. 19(2); S.I. 2003/1990; S.I. 2003/3142; and art. 12(7) omitted (28.12.2017) in so far as it is still in force by virtue of Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 35(7); S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1994/426/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:46.282391+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."
}