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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/17",
  "legislation_title": "Housing and Regeneration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-and-regeneration-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The operator of the network may abandon the electronic communications apparatus, or any part of it, by serving notice to that effect on the HCA or strategic authority outside London not later than the end of the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which the right of way is extinguished.\n(2) In the absence of such a notice, the operator of the network is to be treated at the end of the period of 3 months as having abandoned any part of the apparatus which, at that time, the operator has neither—\n(a) removed, nor\n(b) served notice of intention to remove.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 13(1) inserted (29.4.2026) by English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (c. 23), s. 108(1)(3), Sch. 18 para. 11(5) (with s. 102)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 13 in force at 1.12.2008 by S.I. 2008/3068, art. 2(1)(f) (with arts. 6-13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/17/schedule/3/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:57.313988+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."
}