Paragraph 7

In this schedule—

• “gas transporter” has the meaning given by section 7(1) of the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44);

• “public telecommunications operator” means—

  1. (a)

     a person authorised, by a licence to which section 9 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) applies, to run a public telecommunications system; or

  2. (b)

     a person to whom the telecommunications code has been applied pursuant to section 10 of that Act; and

• “utility undertaker” means a person who is—

  1. (a)

     authorised by any enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of water;

  2. (b)

     a gas transporter; or

  3. (c)

     the holder of a licence under section 6 of the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29),

  and who is, or is deemed to be, a statutory undertaker within the meaning of section 214 of the 1997 Act.