{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-code-conditions-and-restrictions-regulations-2003/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-code-conditions-and-restrictions-regulations-2003/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2553",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-code-conditions-and-restrictions-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Maintenance and the safety of apparatus",
  "text": "(1) A code operator shall inspect and maintain his electronic communications apparatus, other than apparatus installed underground or inside a building or other permanent structure, so as to ensure that it will not cause injury to any person or damage to property.\n(2) A code operator who receives a report that any electronic communications apparatus of his, wherever installed, is in a dangerous state shall investigate that report and, if necessary, make the apparatus safe.\n(3) A code operator shall inform the highway authority or, in Scotland, the roads authority of the arrangements he has made to comply with paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 10 in force at 23.10.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2553/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:57:35.852048+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."
}