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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Maintenance of networks - Interference with lines

134: Costs of removal of trees, etc, in emergency

You could also call this:

"Paying for tree removal in an emergency on your land"

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If you are in charge of some land or a road and a network operator has to remove or trim a tree, shrub, or plant in an emergency, you might have to pay for the work. This can happen if the network operator is allowed to do this under section 132. You will have to pay the reasonable cost of the work that the network operator did.

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Part 4Networks
Maintenance of networks: Interference with lines

134Costs of removal of trees, etc, in emergency

  1. If a network operator removes or trims a tree, shrub, or plant on any land or road under section 132, the occupier of the land, or the local authority or other person who has control of the road, as the case may be, is liable for the reasonable cost of the work of the network operator.

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