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No. 9 of 1925.
TELEPHONE.
Depth, course and position of works.
Wires to be on metallic return principle.
Marking of future apparatus.
and craft may not anchor, for submarine cables of the company, such reserve or reserves to be approved by the Governor in Council.
11. The depth, course and position at and in which any telephone lines or cables, posts, inspection pits or any other works are to be placed shall be determined by the Director.
12. Every wire placed or maintained by the company, either overhead or underground, shall, subject to the provisions of section 25, be on the principle of a metallic return otherwise called the double wire system.
13. Every underground tube, casing, wire or cable of the underground company, hereafter placed or laid or relaid by the company, shall be so marked by the company throughout its course as to distinguish it from the tubes, casings, pipes, wires or cables of every other person.
Posts to be of approved design and material.
Restriction on attachments to public buildings or to trees.
Posts to bear distinguishing marks and reference plans to be supplied.
15. No wire, stay, bracket, insulator or other thing whatsoever shall be attached to any Government building except with the previous consent in writing of the Director, or to any tree except with the previous consent in writing of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department, and the company shall not without the like consent of the said Superintendent lop, top or fell any tree or shrub.
16. (1) The company shall paint or otherwise legibly mark a distinguishing mark on all its posts, and shall at all times maintain the marks in a legible condition.
(2) The company shall prepare and shall once in every year cause to be duly corrected plans of its area of operation showing the lines, street distributing boxes, posts and other works for the time being in position.
(3) Every such plan shall be drawn to such scale as the Director may require: Provided that no particular scale shall be required unless maps of the locality on that scale are for the time being available to the public or to the company.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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