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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Right of access to use existing electricity works for telecommunications and deploying fibre optic cable - Open access obligations

155ZZE: Power to grant relief in respect of breach of open access obligations

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"Court can help fix problems if someone breaks internet access rules"

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If the Commission asks, the High Court can step in if someone is breaking or might break the rules in section 155ZZD. The court can make orders to stop or start certain actions. You can think of this like the court giving instructions to help fix a problem. The court decides what the orders should say and when they should happen.

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Right of access to use existing electricity works for telecommunications and deploying fibre optic cable: Open access obligations

155ZZEPower to grant relief in respect of breach of open access obligations

  1. If, on the application of the Commission, it appears to the High Court that an owner of existing works or a third party intends to engage, is engaging, or has engaged in conduct that constitutes, or would constitute, a breach of section 155ZZD, the court may make orders on any terms and conditions that it thinks appropriate, including, without limitation, an order that the existing works owner or third party refrain from, or engage in, a particular conduct.

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