Telegraph Act 1870
1Short title of Act.
2Incorporation of provisions of Telegraph Acts, 1868, 1869.
3Extension of those Acts: to Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
4Power to purchase the undertaking of the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Company, Limited.
5Confirmation of agreement with the Isle of Man Electric Telegraph Company.
6Postmaster-General may purchase undertakings of companies for transmitting telegrams to Channel Islands.
7Reservation as to the undertaking of the Submarine Telegraph Company.
8Amendment of section 6 of the Act of 1868.
9Saving agreements scheduled in the Act of 1868.
SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers

Telegraph Act 1870

1870 Chapter 88

An Act to extend the Telegraph Acts of 1868, 1869, to the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Whereas it is expedient for the interests of the public that the provisions of the Telegraph Acts, 1868, 1869, should be extended to the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, and that the said Acts should be otherwise amended:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: