42 No. 28743 Act No. 36, 2005 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18 APRIL 2006 ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ACT, 2005 (2) An electronic communications network service licensee must perform its obligations in terms of this Chapter and in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Authority. Guidelines for rapid deployment of electronic communications facilities 21. (1) The Minister must, in consultation with the Minister of Provincial and Local 5 Government, the Minister of Land Affairs, the Minister of Environmental Affairs, the Authority and other relevant institutions, develop guidelines for the rapid deployment and provisioning of electronic communications facilities. (2) The guidelines must provide procedures and processes for— (a) obtaining any necessary permit, authorisation, approval or other governmen- 10 tal authority including the criteria necessary to qualify for such permit, authorisation, approval or other governmental authority; and (b) resolving disputes that may arise between an electronic communications network service licensee and any landowner, in order to satisfy the public interest in the rapid rollout of electronic communications networks and 15 electronic communications facilities. Entry upon and construction of lines across land and waterways 22. (1) An electronic communications network service licensee may— (a) enter upon any land, including any street, road, footpath or land reserved for 20 public purposes, any railway and any waterway of the Republic; (b) construct and maintain an electronic communications network or electronic communications facilities upon, under, over, along or across any land, including any street, road, footpath or land reserved for public purposes, any railway and any waterway of the Republic; and (c) alter or remove its electronic communications network or electronic 25 communications facilities, and may for that purpose attach wires, stays or any other kind of support to any building or other structure. (2) In taking any action in terms of subsection (1), due regard must be had to applicable law and the environmental policy of the Republic. Underground pipes for purposes of electronic communications network service 30 23. (1) If any local authority and an electronic communications network service licensee agree that the provision of the electricity supply and electronic communications network services to a particular area must be provided by means of an underground cable, that local authority may on any premises within the said area, when installing such cable for an underground electricity supply line on the said premises, provide a 35 conduit pipe or other facility for the installation of an underground electronic communications facility from a point of connection on the street boundary to a building on those premises, in accordance with the requirements of the electronic communications network services licensee. 40 (2) The cost of the provision of the said conduit pipe or other facility— (a) is payable to the local authority in question; and (b) is, for the purpose of any law, considered to be fees payable by the owner of the premises in question to the local authority in respect of the installation of the electricity supply line. Pipes under streets 45 24. (1) A electronic communications network service licensee may, after providing thirty (30) days prior written notice to the local authority or person owning or responsible for the care and maintenance of any street, road or footpath— (a) construct and maintain in the manner specified in that notice any pipes, tunnels or tubes required for electronic communications network facilities 50 under any such street, road or footpath;