# Telecommunications Act 1984, Paragraph 80

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) At the end of section 28 of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (acquisition of rights over land by the creation of new rights) there shall be added the following paragraph:—
“(f) section 34(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984”.
(2) In section 32 of that Act (power to extinguish certain rights of way), after subsection (6) (which contains a saving in relation to the apparatus of statutory undertakers) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—
“(6A) In subsection (6) above the reference to apparatus belonging to statutory undertakers shall include a reference to telecommunication apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a telecommunications code system and in relation to any such apparatus—
(a) the references to the undertakers shall have effect as references to the operator of the system in question; and
(b) the reference to the appropriate Minister shall have effect as a reference to the Secretary of State.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/12/schedule/4/paragraph/80 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-80
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