{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-huyton-order-2014/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-huyton-order-2014/schedule-8/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2027",
  "legislation_title": "The Network Rail (Huyton) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/network-rail-huyton-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the protection of any operator, the following provisions have effect, unless otherwise agreed in writing between Network Rail and the operator.\n(2) In this Schedule—\n“BT” means British Telecommunications plc, Company No. 01800000, whose registered office is at 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ;\n...\n“electronic communications apparatus” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code;\n“the electronic communications code” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the 2003 Act;\n“electronic communications code network” means—\n(a)so much of an electronic communications network or infrastructure system provided by an electronic communications code operator as is not excluded from the application of the electronic communications code by a direction under section 106 of the 2003 Act; and\n(b)an electronic communications network which the Secretary of State is providing or proposing to provide;\n“electronic communications code operator” means a person in whose case the electronic communications code is applied by a direction under section 106 of the 2003 Act; and\n“infrastructure system” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code and references to providing an infrastructure system are to be construed in accordance with paragraph 7 of that code;\n“operator” means the operator of an electronic communications code network.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(2) omitted (28.12.2017) by virtue of The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1011), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(2)(a) substituted (28.12.2017) by The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1011), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 1(2) inserted (28.12.2017) by The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1011), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 1 in force at 19.8.2014, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 106."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2027/schedule/8/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:46.124352+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."
}