Telecommunications Ordinance Part 4 4-20 Section 16 Cap. 106 (4) The Chief Justice may, subject to this Ordinance, make rules for regulating proceedings before the District Court under this section. 16. Removal, etc., of line, post or installation where necessary by reason of use of land, etc. (1) Where any person desires to use land or seabed in a way that makes it necessary to remove to another part of the land or seabed a telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation maintained by the Authority or a licensee in, over or upon the land or seabed under section 14 or to alter such telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation in any way, he may by written notice served upon the Authority or licensee, as the case may be, require the removal or alteration of the telecommunications line, post or radiocommunications installation and such requirement shall not be unreasonably refused by the Authority or licensee, as the case may be. (Replaced 36 of 2000 s. 9) (2) Any expenses incurred by the Authority or the licensee in complying with a requirement under subsection (1) may be recovered from the person who made the requirement. 17. Trees interrupting telecommunications (1) If a tree standing or lying near a telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation interrupts, or is likely to interrupt telecommunications, a magistrate may, upon application by the Authority or the licensee concerned, as the case may be, order the tree to be removed or otherwise dealt with in such a way as to prevent the interruption, or the likelihood of the interruption, of telecommunications and, if the tree was in existence at the time the telecommunications line or radiocommunications installation was placed in, over Last updated date 2.8.2012