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No. 9.1
TELEPHONE.
[A.D. 1925.
their works by certain specified works.
Precaution to be taken to prevent lightning discharges entering buildings.
Company to be answerable for and indemnify Government against claims.
Company to alter works on notice.
the Governor in Council may think it necessary or desirable to make for the purpose of altering the level of any lands or the gradient or level of or repairing or constructing any street, path or land or laying or renewing drain pipes or sewers gas or water pipes or mains or any tube, casing, wire or cable for the carriage of electrical current or inspect- ing the same or for any other lawful purpose, whether of a like nature of the interruption occasioned by any person using or making any works upon or excavation or dis- turbance of any streets or lands.
25. The Company shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent lightning discharges from entering any build- ings in which its telephones are installed or to which any wire, bracket or other apparatus of the Company is attached.
26. The Company shall be answerable for and shall indemnify the Government against all claims on account of accident, damage or injury to property or to any person arising through its act neglect or default, or through the act neglect or default of its servants or of any contractor employed by it, or through or in consequence of any of the Company's works under the concession, or through the construction maintenance repair or operation of the Com- pany's telephone system, or through the downfall or wires, cables, insulators, brackets, posts or any part of its lines by reason of storm (if the damage caused by such storm is due to the Company's negligence) or any other cause of whatever nature or through the Company's system interfer- ing with, injuring or impairing the efficiency of the under- taking of any other person.
27. The Company shall, within a reasonable time after receipt of notice in writing from the Director, at the sole cost and charges of the Company and in such manner as the Director shall prescribe:-
(a) Alter the course, depth and position or the mode of attachment of any of the Company's lines or cables and the position of any post or inspection pit or other works of the Company; save that the Company shall not be required to alter its ducts or main cables unless in the opinion of the Governor in Council such alteration is necessary:
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