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Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983
Power of Commissioners of Public Works to undertake work.
53.—(1) The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland shall have power to undertake work at the request of either company.
(2) In the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (1), the said Commissioners shall, in respect of any new work undertaken by them at the request of either company on or after the vesting day, be deemed not to be a State authority for the purposes of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Acts, 1963 and 1976, and, accordingly, section 61 shall apply.
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C47
Application of section restricted insofar as it applies to Bord Telecom Éireann (1.12.1998) by European Communities (Telecommunications) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 (S.I. No. 286 of 1998), reg. 5(1), in operation as per reg. 5(2).
Repeal of certain provisions of Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983
5. (1) Sections 43 and 53, insofar as those provisions apply to Bord Telecom Eireann, and section 88 (2) of the Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983), are hereby repealed.
(2) This regulation shall come into operation on the first day of December, 1998.