as to the payment of any expenses to which the authority will necessarily be put in consequence of
the exercise of the powers conferred by that section, or as to the time or mode of execution of any
work, or as to any other thing connected with or relative to any work undertaken by the telegraph
authority under those powers [ : ]1
2[Provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force,
the local authority shall not impose any condition which requires the telegraph authority to pay rent
or royalty for setting up or placing a telegraph line over, across, along or through the property of that
authority. ].
2[(2) Any dispute regarding the amount of the expenses payable by the telegraph authority under
subsection (1) shall be determined in accordance with section 15:
Provided that permission to the telegraph authority shall not be withheld on account of such
dispute.].
13. Power for local authority to require removal or alteration of telegraph line or post.
When, under the foregoing provisions of this Act, a telegraph line 3[post or works] has been placed
by the telegraph authority under, over, along, across, in or upon any property vested in or under the
control or management of a local authority, and the local authority, having regard to circumstances
which have arisen since the telegraph line 3[, post or works] was so placed, considers it expedient that
it should be removed or that its position should be altered, the local authority may require the
telegraph authority to remove it or alter its position, as the case may be.
14. Power to alter position of gas or water pipes or drains. The telegraph authority may, for
the purpose of exer cising the power conferred upon it by this Act in respect of any property vested in
or under the control or management of a local authority, alter the position thereunder on any pipe (not
being a main) for the supply of gas or water, or of any drain (not being a main drain):
Provided that__
(a) when the telegraph authority desires to alter the posi tion of any��such pipe or drain, it shall
give reasonable notice of its intention to do so, specifying the time at which it will begin
to do so, to the local authority, and, when the pipe or drain is not under the control of the
local authority, to the person under whose control the pipe or drain is;
(b) a local authority or person receiving notice under clause (a) may send a person to
superintend the work, and the telegraph authority shall execute the work to the
reasonable satisfaction of the person so sent.
1 Subs. by the Telegraph (Amdt.) Act, 1975 (67 of 1975), s. 9, for fullstop.
2 Added ibid.
3 Subs. ibid., s. 10, for “or post”.
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