PART III
POWERS TO PLACE TELEGRAPH LINES AND POSTS
10. Power for telegraph authority to place and maintain telegraph lines and posts.1[The
telegraph authority may place, set up, repair, alter and maintain or cause to be placed, set up,
repaired, altered and maintained a telegraph line, post or works under, over, along, across or through
any land, seashore, road, stream, water or any immovable property, may break, excavate and re move
soil to the extent and depth required for placing or re moving telegraph line, post or works, and, for
the purpose of cons tructing or maintaining a telegraph line or post, may dig earth, stone and gravel
and fell trees].
Provided that –
(a) the telegraph authority shall not exercise the powers conferred by this section except for
the purposes of a telegraph established or maintained by the 2[Federal Government], or to
be so established or maintained;
(b) the 2[Federal Government] shall not acquire any right other than that of user only in the
property under, over, along, across, in or upon which the telegraph authority places any
telegraph line or post; and
(c) except as hereinafter provided, the telegraph authority shall not exercise those powers in
respect of any pro perty vested in or under the control or management of any local
authority, without the permission of that authority; and
(d) in the exercise of the powers conferred by this��section, the telegraph authority shall do as
little damage as possible, and, when it has exercised those powers in respect of any
property other than that referred to in clause (c), shall pay full compensation to all
persons interested for any damage sustained by them by reason of the exercise of those
powers.
11. Power to enter on property in order to repair or remove telegraph lines or posts. The
telegraph authority may, at any time, for the pur pose of examining, repairing, altering or removing
any telegraph line 3[, post or works], enter on the property under, over, along, across, in or upon
which the line or post has been placed.
Provisions applicable to Property vested in or under the Control or Management of Local
Authorities.
12. Power for local authority to give permission under section 10, clause (c), subject to
conditions. 4[(1)] Any permission given by a local authority under section 10, clause (c), may be
given subject to such reasonable conditions as that authority thinks fit to impose,
1 Subs. by the Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1975 (67 of 1975), s. 7, for certain words.
2 Subs. ibid., s. 2, for “Central Government” which was subs. by A. O., 1937 for “Govt.”.
3 Subs. by Act 67 of 1975, s. 8, for “or post”.
4 Renumbered, as subsection (1) of that section, ibid., s. 9.
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