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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Maintenance of networks - Local authority, etc, requiring work to be done

147A: Local authority, etc, may require lines, etc, to be moved

You could also call this:

"Councils can ask you to move your phone or internet lines on a road if needed."

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If you own lines, cabinets, or wireless works on a road, the local authority or person in charge of the road can ask you to move them. They must ask you in writing and you must be a network operator. You will have to raise, lower, or alter the position of the lines, cabinets, or wireless works as requested.

If you refuse or fail to do the work, the person who asked you can do the work themselves or get someone else to do it. Before they do the work, they must give you notice at least 15 working days in advance.

You can find more information about this by looking at the Telecommunications Act 2001 and other related laws, such as the Infrastructure (Amendments Relating to Utilities Access) Act 2010 and the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011.

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Part 4Networks
Maintenance of networks: Local authority, etc, requiring work to be done

147ALocal authority, etc, may require lines, etc, to be moved

  1. Where a network operator owns lines, cabinets, wireless works, or other similar appliances that are on a road, the local authority or other person having jurisdiction over the road may, by notice in writing, require the network operator to raise, lower, or otherwise alter the position of the lines, cabinets, wireless works, or other similar appliances.

  2. If the network operator refuses or fails, within a reasonable period, to do the work required, the person requiring the work may do the work or have it done by some other person.

  3. Before doing work as permitted by subsection (2), the person requiring the work must give notice to the network operator at least 15 working days before the work commences.

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Notes
  • Section 147A: inserted, on , by section 12 of the Infrastructure (Amendments Relating to Utilities Access) Act 2010 (2010 No 99).
  • Section 147A(1): amended, on , by section 26(3) of the Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 27).