Schedule 1: The electronic communications code Part 8: Conferral of street work rights and their exercise
Part 8 of the code applies to streets in England and Wales and roads in Northern Ireland and Scotland, and gives the operator certain rights in relation to such streets and roads, which may be exercised without agreement or a court order. Part 8 replicates what was paragraph 9 of the existing code.
	Paragraph 56 sets out the scope of Part 8. Paragraph 7 defines the streets in England and Wales and the roads in Scotland and Northern Ireland to which Part 8 applies.
	Paragraph 58 provides that the operator can exercise the street work rights for the statutory purposes (defined in paragraph 4 of the code), allowing the operator to exercise the rights without agreement under Part 2 or a court order under Part 4, subject to the remaining provisions of Part 8 and subject of course to the requirements of other legislation (see paragraph 99 of the code).
	Paragraph 59 sets out the rights that can be exercised under Part 8. The street work rights allow the operator to install and keep apparatus in, on, under or along or across a street or road. There are associated rights to enter land, inspect, maintain, adjust, alter, repair, upgrade and operate the apparatus and to carry out associated works.