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Telecommunications Act 2001

Networks - Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology - Exercising statutory rights of access for category 1 and category 2 installations

155Z: How statutory rights of access must be exercised

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"Rules for entering someone's property to install things like fibre"

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When you want to enter someone's property to install something like fibre, you must follow some rules. You must give the owner and the person living in the property reasonable notice that you are coming to start the installation, but only if you did not specify a date earlier or if the date has changed. You can enter the property at reasonable times, like during the day, and only people authorised by your company can come in.

You must make sure that the people entering the property have written permission from your company. If the owner or occupier asks, the person entering the property must show proof of who they are and why they are allowed to be there. This proof is called evidence of authority, which is explained in section 118.

When someone enters the property, they must be able to show that they are allowed to be there if you ask them to.

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Access to property, involving rights of multiple parties, to deploy fibre optic media and other technology: Exercising statutory rights of access for category 1 and category 2 installations

155ZHow statutory rights of access must be exercised

  1. An FTTP service provider or a network operator must comply with the following requirements when exercising its statutory right of access under this subpart to enter property and carry out an installation:

  2. the owner and the occupier of the property must be given reasonable notice of the service provider’s or network operator’s intention to enter the property to start the installation if,—
    1. the FTTP service provider or network operator did not, in the preliminary notice given under section 155K, 155L, or 155R, specify a fixed date for entering the property and carrying out the installation; or
      1. the FTTP service provider or network operator specified a date in that preliminary notice but that date has changed; and
      2. from the start to the completion of the installation, entry to the property must be made at reasonable times; and
        1. entry to the property must be made only by an officer, employee, or agent of the service provider or network operator authorised by it in writing; and
          1. the person authorised to enter must produce evidence of his or her authority and identity if asked to do so.

            1. In subsection (1), evidence of authority has the same meaning as in section 118, with any necessary modifications.

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