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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003-consequential-amendments-order-2003/schedule-1/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2155",
  "legislation_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003-consequential-amendments-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "References to telecommunications",
  "text": "In the instruments set out in the first column of the table below, in the provisions set out in the third column—\n(a) for “telecommunications apparatus”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “electronic communications apparatus”;\n(b) for “telecommunication”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “electronic communications”;\n(c) for “telecommunications code” wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “electronic communications code”;\n(d) for “telecommunications code system”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “electronic communications code network”;\n(e) for “telecommunications operator”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “operator of an electronic communications code network”.\nTitle of Instrument\nInstrument Number\nProvisions to be amended\nSix Pit and Upper Bank Junctions Light Railway Order 1985\nS.I 1985/747\nArticle 7\nAlton Station Light Railway Order 1985\nS.I. 1985/810\nArticle 7\nLydney and Parkend Light Railway Order 1985\nS.I. 1985/844\nArticle 7\nBo'ness and Kinneil Light Railway Order 1986\nS.I. 1986/174\nArticle 10\nEast Lancashire Light Railway Order 1986\nS.I. 1986/277\nArticle 8\nBluebell Extension Light Railway Order 1986\nS.I. 1986/343\nArticle 8\nNene Valley Light Railway Order 1986\nS.I. 1986/1000\nArticle 8\nVickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited (Barrow-in-Furness) Light Railway Order 1986\nS.I. 1986/2150\nArticle 5\nDerwent Valley Railway (Transfer) Light Railway Order 1987\nS.I. 1987/75\nArticle 5\nNorth Norfolk (Extension and Amendment) Light Railway Order 1987\nS.I. 1987/950\nArticle 6\nYorkshire Dales Light Railway Order 1987\nS.I. 1987/1088\nArticle 9\nSwanage Light Railway Order 1987\nS.I. 1987/1443\nArticle 7\nSouth Tynedale Railway (Light Railway) Order 1987\nS.I. 1987/1984\nArticle 7\nKinneil and Manuel Light Railway Order 1988\nS.I. 1988/725\nArticle 7\nBure Valley Light Railway Order 1989\nS.I. 1989/835\nArticle 8\nBodmin Railway Centre Light Railway Order 1989\nS.I. 1989/1625\nArticle 5\nCholsey and Wallingford Light Railway Order 1989\nS.I. 1989/1833\nArticle 6\nPeak Rail Light Railway Order 1990\nS.I. 1990/2350\nArticle 6\nBitton Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/134\nArticle 7\nNorth Tyneside Steam Railway Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/933\nArticle 9\nYorkshire Dales Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/1111\nArticle 8\nTanfield Railway (Causey Extension) Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/1162\nArticle 8\nIsle of Wight Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/1619\nArticle 8\nLeicester North Station Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/1965\nArticle 7\nKirklees Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/2194\nArticle 8\nGrimsby and Louth Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/2210\nArticle 7(b)\nSaundersfoot Steam Railway (Light Railway) Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/2682\nArticle 9\nPeak Rail Light Railway Order 1991\nS.I. 1991/2812\nArticle 6\nCholsey and Wallingford Light Railway (Extension and Amendment) Order 1992\nS.I. 1992/113\nArticle 6\nBrechin and Bridge of Dun Light Railway Order 1992\nS.I. 1992/1267\nArticle 8\nPeak Rail Light Railway Order 1993\nS.I. 1993/1083\nArticle 6\nSwanage Light Railway (Extension) Order 1993\nS.I. 1993/1607\nArticle 8\nTunbridge Wells and Eridge Light Railway Order 1993\nS.I. 1993/1651\nArticle 6\nManchester, Liverpool Road (Castlefield Properties Limited) Light Railway Order 1993\nS.I. 1993/2153\nArticle 6\nEast Kent Light Railway Order 1993\nS.I. 1993/2154\nArticle 6\nChappel and Wakes Colne Light Railway Order 1994\nS.I. 1994/84\nArticle 7\nBowes Extension Light Railway Order 1994\nS.I. 1994/691\nArticle 6\nWirral Tramway Light Railway Order 1994\nS.I. 1994/1761\nArticle 20\nFoxfield Light Railway Order 1995\nS.I. 1995/1236\nArticle 7(4)\nNorthampton and Lamport Light Railway Order 1995\nS.I. 1995/1300\nArticle 5\nOswestry Light Railway Order 1995\nS.I. 1995/2142\nArticle 8(3)\nGreat Central (Nottingham) Railway Order 1995\nS.I. 1995/2143\nArticle 10(4)\nLow Moor Tramway Light Railway Order 1995\nS.I. 1995/2501\nArticle 7(2)\nChurnet Valley Light Railway Order 1996\nS.I. 1996/1267\nArticle 7(3)\nSouth Tynedale Railway (Light Railway) Order 1996\nS.I. 1996/1829\nArticle 7(3)\nDuffield and Winksworth Light Railway Order 1996\nS.I. 1996/2660\nArticle 5(3)\nGreater Manchester (LRTS) (Eccles Extension) Order 1996\nS.I. 1996/2714\nArticles 5(6) and 11(5)\nBodmin and Wenford Light Railway Order 1996\nS.I. 1996/2867\nArticle 8(3)\nYorkshire Dales Light Railway Order 1997\nS.I. 1997/102\nArticle 9(3)\nGreater Manchester (LRTS) (Airport Extension) Order 1997\nS.I. 1997/1266\nArticles 6(7) and 12(5)\nGolden Valley Railway Order 1997\nS.I. 1997/1688\nArticle 10(4)\nGreater Manchester (LRTS)(Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) Order 1998\nS.I. 1998/1936\nArticles 5(6) and 12(5)\nTyne and Wear Passenger Transport (Sunderland) Order 1998\nS.I. 1998/3269\nSchedule 10, paragraphs 3 and 4\nWirral Tramway Order 1999\nS.I. 1999/1306\nArticle 25\nWelsh Highland Railway Order 1999\nS.I. 1999/2129\nArticle 21\nKeith and Dufftown Light Railway Order 1999\nS.I. 1999/2382\nArticle 6(3)\nRiver Thames (Hungerford Footbridges) Order 1999\nS.I. 1999/2981\nSchedule 10, Part III, paragraphs 25 and 27\nGreat Central Railway (East Leake Branch, etc.) Order 2000\nS.I. 2000/2585\nArticle 10(4)\nBridgend Valleys Railway Order 2001\nS.I. 2001/1295\nArticle 9(4)\nLeeds Supertram (Extension) Order 2001\nS.I. 2001/1347\nSchedule 9, paragraph 2\nRailtrack (Shortlands Junction) Order 2001\nS.I. 2001/2870\nSchedule 5, Part II\nSouth Hampshire Rapid Transit Order 2001\nS.I. 2001/3627\nSchedule 11, paragraph 3\nDocklands Light Railway (Silvertown and London City Airport Extension) Order 2002\nS.I. 2002/1066\nSchedule 10, paragraph 2\nEast Lancashire (Heywood Extension) Light Railway\nS.I. 2002/1384\nArticle 7(3)\nStrand Road Preston Railway Order 2002\nS.I. 2002/2398\nArticle 5(4)\nNetwork Rail (West Coast Main Line) Order 2003\nS.I. 2003/1075\nSchedule 13, Part II",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/490",
      "affecting_title": "The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/264",
      "affecting_title": "The Overhead Lines (Exemption) (Scotland) Regulations 2013"
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