Section Text
1) A licensee shall, before
laying down or placing, within ten meters of any telegraph line, electric line,
electrical plant or other works, not being either service lines, or electric lines or
electrical plant, for the repair, renewal or amendment of existing works of which
the character or position is not to be altered,-
(a) submit a proposal in case of a new installation to an authority to be
designated by the Central Government and such authority shall
take a decision on the proposal within thirty days;
(b) give not less than ten days' notice in writing to the telegraph
authority in case of repair, renewal or amendment or existing
works , specifying-
(i) the course of the works or alterations proposed ;
(ii) the manner in which the works are to be utilised ;
(iii) the amount and nature of the electricity to be transmitted;
(iv) the extent to, and the manner in which (if at all), earth
returns are to be used ,
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and the licensee shall conform to such reasonable requirements,
either general or special, as may be laid down by the telegraph authority
within that period for preventing any telegraph line from being
injuriously affected by such works or alterations:
Provided that in case of emergency (which shall be stated by the licensee
in writing to the telegraph authority) arising from defects in any of the electric
lines or electrical plant or other works of the licensee, the licensee shall be
required to give only such notice as may be possible after the necessity for the
proposed new works or alterations has arisen.
(2) Where the works of the laying or placing of any service line is to be
executed the licensee shall, not less than forty-eight hours before commencing
the work, serve upon the telegraph authority a notice in writing of his intention
to execute such works.
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