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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-scotland-act-1958/section-17",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/24",
  "legislation_title": "Land Drainage (Scotland) Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-scotland-act-1958",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Provision as to work involving alteration of telegraphic lines.",
  "text": "Part 10 of Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003 (the electronic communications code) (which provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the alteration of electronic communications apparatus) shall apply to the authorised persons under an improvement order for the purposes of works in pursuance of that order.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17 substituted by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 4 para. 36(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (28.12.2017) by Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30), s. 118(6), Sch. 3 para. 6; S.I. 2017/1286, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 17 substituted (17.9.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/24/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:07.221415+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."
}