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No. 9 of 1925.
TELEPHONE.
Pressure on circuits and apparatus to be limited.
Crossed services of others to be protected.
Provisions as to completion and protection of works in public streets and payment of costs of surfacing.
20. All circuits and apparatus shall be so arranged that there shall be no danger of any part thereof becoming accidentally charged to any pressure beyond the limits of pressure for which it is intended.
21. Whenever the company leads a telephone or aerial line across or in proximity to any telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line belonging to any person the company shall ensure that its telephone or aerial line is so protected as to guard against the possibility of its coming into contact with the telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line of any such person.
22. After the company has opened or broken up any public street it shall be under the following further obligations-
(a) it shall with all convenient speed complete the work on account of which it has opened or broken up the same, and fill in the ground and remove all rubbish occasioned by its work;
(b) the surface of such street shall be made good by the Director and the company shall pay on demand to the Accountant-General such sum as the Director may certify to be the cost of such making good;
(c) it shall in the meantime cause the place where such street is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched and to be properly lighted at night;
(d) it shall pay to the Accountant-General any such sum as may be certified by the Director to be the reasonable cost of keeping such portion of the street in repair for six months after the same is restored so far as such cost may be applicable to and increased by such opening or breaking up:
Provided always that, if the company fails, within such period as the Director considers reasonable in the circumstances, to complete the work on account whereof it has opened or broken up such street and to fill in the ground, it shall be lawful for the Director, forthwith and without notice to the company, to fill in the ground and remove all rubbish, and the cost as certified by the Director of any work executed by the Director under the terms of this proviso shall be paid by the company on demand to the Accountant-General.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
1644
No. 9 of 1925.
TELEPHONE.
Pressure on circuits and apparatus to be limited.
Crossed services of others to be protected.
Provisions
as to com-
pletion and protection of works in public streets and payment of costs of surfacing.
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20. All circuits and apparatus shall be so arranged that there shall be no danger of any part thereof becoming accidentally charged to any pressure beyond the limits of pressure for which it is intended.
21. Whenever the company leads a telephone or aerial line across or in proximity to any telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line belonging to any person the company shall ensure that its telephone or aerial line is so protected as to guard against the possibility of its coming into contact with the telephone or telegraph wire or aerial line of any such person.
22. After the company has opened or broken up any public street it shall be under the following further obligations-
(a) it shall with all convenient speed complete the work on account of which it has opened or broken up the same, and fill in the ground and remove all rubbish occasioned by its work;
(b) the surface of such street shall be made good by the Director and the company shall pay on demand to the Accountant-General such sum as the Director may certify to be the cost of such making good;
(c) it shall in the meantime cause the place where such street is opened or broken up to be fenced and watched and to be properly lighted at night;
(d) it shall pay to the Accountant-General any such sum as may be certified by the Director to be the reasonable cost of keeping such portion of the street in repair for six months after the same is restored so far as such cost may be applicable to and increased by such opening or breaking up:
Provided always that, if the company fails, within such period as the Director considers reasonable in the circumstances, to complete the work on account whereof it has opened or broken up such street and to fill in the ground, it shall be lawful for the Director, forthwith and without notice to the company, to fill in the ground and remove all rubbish, and the cost as certified by the Director of any work executed by the Director under the terms of this proviso shall be paid by the company on demand to the Accountant-General.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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