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No. 9 of 1925.
TELEPHONE.
TELEPHONE.
No. 9 of 1925.
5
Minimum
of damage to be done; compensa- tion to be paid.
Government
to provide facilities.
(a) it may place and maintain telephone lines and cables and ducts under any public street and may alter or remove the
same;
(b) it may place and maintain telephone lines and cables over, along or across any public street and may place and main- tain posts in or upon any public street and may alter or remove the same;
(c) it may, for the purposes aforesaid, open or break up any public street;
(d) it may place and maintain telephone lines and cables and posts under, in, upon, over, along or across any unleased Crown land or any estuary or branch of the sea or the shore or bed of any tidal waters within the boundaries of the Colony (but so that the same shall not hinder or interfere with navigation) and may alter or remove the same;
(e) it may place and maintain telephone lines and cables under, in, upon, over, along or across railway tracks, tunnels and other railway property belonging to the Government (but so that the same shall not hinder or interfere with the railway traffic) and may alter or remove the same:
Provided always that the company shall not be deemed to acquire any right other than that of user only in the soil of any street or unleased Crown land or any other place under, in, upon, over, along or across which the company places or maintains any works.
9. In the exercise of the authority conferred under section 8 the company shall do as little damage as may be, and shall make full and reasonable compensation for all damage caused by reason of or in consequence of the exercise of such authority.
10. The Government agrees to provide to the company, at the company's expense, sites, to be approved by the Governor in Council, for submarine cable terminal houses at suitable points within the Colony and suitable sites, to be approved by the Governor in Council, for the company's submarine cable storage tanks.
The Government shall also provide, free of cost to the com- pany, a suitable reserve or suitable reserves, in which vessels
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 Depth, telephone lines or cables, posts, inspection pits or any other course and works are to be placed shall be determined by the Director.
position of
works.
return
12. Every wire placed or maintained by the company, either Wires to be overhead or underground, shall, subject to the provisions of metallic section 25, be on the principle of a metallic return otherwise principle. called the double wire system.
of future
13. Every underground tube, casing, wire or cable of the Marking company, hereafter placed or laid or relaid by the company, anderground shall be so marked by the company throughout its course as to apparatus. distinguish it from the tubes, casings, pipes, wires or cables of every other person.
14. Every post of the company shall be of a pattern, design Posts to be and material approved by the Director.
of approved design and material.
n-ents to
15. No wire, stay, bracket, insulator or other thing whatso- Restriction ever shall be attached to any Government building except with on attach- the previous consent in writing of the Director or to any tree public except with the previous consent in writing of the Superintendent buildings 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.
or to trees.
hear dis-
16.-(1) The company shall paint or otherwise legibly mark Posts to 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.
tinguishing marks and reference
plans to be supplied.
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