OpenLegislation

Article 20 For protection of telecommunications operators

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

For the protection of telecommunications operators the following provisions shall, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the undertaker and the telecommunications operators concerned, apply and have effect:—

(a)

in this article expressions defined in the Telecommunications Act 1984 have the same meanings as in that Act;

(b)

the temporary stopping up or diversion of any street under article 16 (Temporary stopping up of streets) above shall not affect any right of a telecommunications operator under paragraph 9 of the telecommunications code to maintain any apparatus which, at the time of the stopping up or diversion, is in that street.