{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-88",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984/schedule-4/paragraph-88.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/12",
  "legislation_title": "Telecommunications Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/88",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "88",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Nothing in—\n(a) the London Building Acts 1930 to 1939 or byelaws thereunder, or\n(b) a special enactment passed or made before the appointed day (including such an enactment relating to Scotland or Northern Ireland) for purposes similar to those of an enactment contained in Part V or IX of the Highways Act 1980 (except sections 156, 157 and 159),\nshall affect any rights conferred by or in accordance with the electronic communications code on the provider of a electronic communications code network or apply to any electronic communications apparatus kept installed for the purposes of any such network.\n(2) In this paragraph “special enactment” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 88(1)(b) repealed (E.W.S.) (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), ss. 168(2), 170, Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch. 2; S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 88 substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(a) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 88 substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(d) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 88 substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(b) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 88 substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(c) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 88 substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(e) (with art. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/12/schedule/4/paragraph/88",
    "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."
}