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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

155ZB: Obligation to reinstate property

You could also call this:

"Fixing property damage after installation"

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If you are an FTTP service provider or a network operator, you must fix any area of a property that was impacted or disturbed by your installation. You need to do this as soon as possible after the installation is complete. You must try to make the area look as close to its original condition as reasonably possible.

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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

155ZBObligation to reinstate property

  1. An FTTP service provider or a network operator must, as soon as practicable after completing an installation, reinstate the area of the property impacted or disturbed by the installation as closely as reasonably possible to its original condition before the installation.

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