(1)The following provisions of the undermentioned Acts are, with the necessary modifications, incorporated with this Act:—
The Act of 1963—
section 10 (Provisions as to use of electrical power); and
section 15 (Power to make trial holes):
The Act of 1965—
section 10 (Underpinning of houses near works), except the provisos to paragraphs (4) and (6) thereof.
(2)For the purposes of this Act references in the said section 10 of the Act of 1963, as so incorporated, to Work No. 1 authorised by that Act shall be construed as references to the works and the said section shall have effect as if, after the reference to“insulated return” and“insulated returns” in paragraphs (5) and (7) thereof respectively, there were added “or uninsulated metallic returns of low resistance”.
(3)The Corporation shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, so exercise the powers conferred by the said section 10 of the Act of 1965, as so incorporated, as not to prevent any public telecommunications operator from having access to any telecommunications apparatus (as defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the [1984 c. 12.] Telecommunications Act 1984) kept installed for the purposes of that system.