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Telecommunications Act 1984

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10(1)Subject to paragraph 3 above and the following provisions of this code, where any telecommunication apparatus is kept installed on or over any land for the purposes of the operator's system, the operator shall, for the statutory purposes, have the right to install and keep installed lines which—

(a)pass over other land adjacent to or in the vicinity of the land on or over which that apparatus is so kept;

(b)are connected to that apparatus ; and

(c)are not at any point in the course of passing over the other land less than 3 metres above the ground or within 2 metres of any building over which they pass.

(2)Nothing in sub-paragraph (1) above shall authorise the installation or keeping on or over any land of—

(a)any telecommunication apparatus used to support, carry or suspend a line installed in pursuance of that sub-paragraph ; or

(b)any line which by reason of its position interferes with the carrying on of any business (within the meaning of section 6 of this Act) carried on on that land.

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