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Telecommunications Act 2001

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155M: Requirements in respect of preliminary notice and design plan for category 2 installations

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"Companies must notify and show you their plans before installing certain equipment on your property"

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When a company wants to install category 2 equipment on your property, they must give you a preliminary notice. This notice must tell you when they plan to enter your property and do the installation. It must also explain what the installation will involve and which parts of your property they need to access. The notice must say why you might be able to object to the installation and how you can object, including when you need to do it by. You can find more information about this in section 155L(1)(a).

The company must also give you a high-level design plan that shows where they will do the installation and where they will put any equipment. This plan must describe or illustrate the installation method and where the equipment will go on your property. You can find more information about this in section 155L(1)(a).

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Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology: Consumer complaints system

155MRequirements in respect of preliminary notice and design plan for category 2 installations

  1. The preliminary notice about a category 2 installation given to each person under section 155L(1)(a) must—

  2. state when the FTTP service provider or network operator is intending to enter the property and carry out the installation; and
    1. include a general explanation of what will be involved in carrying out the installation; and
      1. identify any access areas that the service provider or network operator may want to use when carrying out the installation; and
        1. set out the grounds on which an affected person may object to the FTTP service provider or network operator entering the property and carrying out the installation under this subpart; and
          1. state how an affected person may object and the time within which an objection must be made; and
            1. comply with the prescribed requirements (if any).

              1. The high-level design plan required under section 155L(1)(a) must describe or illustrate—

              2. where the installation method (or, if more than 1, where each installation method) is to be used on the property; and
                1. where the network equipment (if any) associated with that installation method is proposed to be put.

                  Notes
                  • Section 155M: replaced, on , by section 13 of the Telecommunications (Property Access and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 16).