{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/12",
  "legislation_title": "Telecommunications Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/51",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Roads (Scotland) Act 1970 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.\n(2) In subsection (6) of section 7 (power to divert waters after consulting local authority and other bodies acting under statutory powers), at the end there shall be inserted the words “ ; and in subsection (3) above the reference to a body acting under statutory powers includes a reference to the operator of a telecommunications code system (whether or not a body) acting in pursuance of any right conferred by or in accordance with the telecommunications code. ”.\n(3) For subsection (3) of section 9 (which applies section 7 of the Telegraph Act 1878 to work authorised by a scheme made by a highway authority) there shall be substituted the following subsections:—\n“(3) Paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code (which provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the alteration of telecommunication apparatus) shall apply, for the purposes of any works authorised by a scheme made by a highway authority under this section, to the person authorised to do the works.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (8) of paragraph 23 of the telecommunications code (offence) shall be deemed to be omitted for the purposes of the application by this section of that paragraph to a highway authority in relation to a trunk road.”.\n(4) In section 50 (interpretation)—\n(a) in subsection (1), for the definition of statutory undertakers there shall be substituted the following definition:—\n““statutory undertakers” means—\n(a)any statutory undertakers as defined in section 275(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972;\n(b)the Post Office; and\n(c)except in section 39(4) of this Act, the operator of any telecommunications code system;”;\n(b) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(2A) Any reference in this Act to apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers shall, in relation to the operator of a telecommunications code system, have effect as a reference to telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of that system.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 17, 19, 26 and 51 repealed (S.) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(3), Sch. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1878 c. 76."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/12/schedule/4/paragraph/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:04:22.261665+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."
}