[F1159A.—(1) Paragraph 23 of the[F2 electronic communications code] (which provides a procedure for certain cases where works involve the alteration of[F2 electronic communications apparatus]) shall apply to the Executive for the purposes of any works which it is authorised to execute under Chapter II, III or V of Part III.
(2) Where in pursuance of an order under Article 51 a public right of way over land is extinguished and, at the beginning of the day on which the order comes into operation, there is under, in, on, over, along or across the land any[F2 electronic communications apparatus] kept installed for the purposes of[F2 an electronic communications code network], the operator of[F2 that network] shall have the same powers in respect of that apparatus as if the order had not come into operation; but any person entitled to land over which the right of way subsisted shall be entitled to land over which the right of way subsisted shall be entitled to require the alteration of the apparatus.
(3) Paragraph 1(2) of the[F2 electronic communications code] (alteration of apparatus to include moving, removal or replacement of apparatus) shall apply for the purposes of the preceeding provisions of this Article as it applies for the purposes of that code.
(4) Paragraph 21 of the[F2 electronic communications code] (restriction on removal of[F2 electronic communications apparatus]) shall apply in relation to any entitlement conferred by this Article to require the alteration, moving or replacement of any[F2 electronic communications apparatus] as it applies in relation to an entitlement to reuire the removal of any such apparatus.]