{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1899/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1899/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/62-63/38",
  "legislation_title": "Telegraph Act 1899",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telegraph-act-1899",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Payment of expenses of exercise of powers under telephone licence.",
  "text": "(1) Where the council of a borough or a district are licensed to run a public telecommunication system (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1984), they may . . . borrow money for the purpose . . . and the council may, subject to the provisions . . . of the licence, exercise their powers under the licence throughout the area for which it is granted, although part of that area may be outside the borough or district.\n(2) In the application of this Act to Scotland, a royal or parliamentary burgh shall be substituted for a borough, and a police burgh for a district . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 for further specified purposes) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), ss. 406(6)(7), 408, 411(2), Sch. 19(1) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, art. 1(2), 2(1), 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3(2) (as amended (8.12.2003) by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3))); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), Sch. 4 para. 10, Sch. 5 para. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by (E.W.) Local Government Act 1933 (c. 51), Sch. 11 Pt. IV and (S.) Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43), s. 381, Sch. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 7 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (c. 43), s. 381, Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 2(3) repealed by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973/285"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/62-63/38/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:38.121451+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}