Schedule 1: The electronic communications code Part 11: Overhead apparatus
Part 11 of the code deals with overhead apparatus. It replicates what were paragraphs 10 and 18 of the existing code in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984.
	Paragraph 74 provides that an operator has the right to install overhead lines that pass above third party land (on which no apparatus is installed) without the requirement of the agreement (under Part 2) of the person over whose land the lines pass. This is subject to the apparatus to which the lines are attached being on land on which the operator has a right to install such apparatus. The lines must be at least three metres above the ground, must not pass within two metres of any building and may not interfere with the carrying on of any business carried out on that land.
	Paragraph 75 provides that operators must attach notices to any apparatus, the whole or part of which is three metres or more above the ground. This includes lines and other apparatus. The operator must attach a notice (within three days, beginning with the day after installation) to every major item of apparatus, or (if no new major apparatus has been installed) to the nearest existing major item of apparatus to which the new apparatus is connected. The notice must be legible, secure and provide the name and address of the operator to which an objector can send notice of objection under Part 12 of the code (see below for the right to object to certain apparatus). Enforcement is dealt with in paragraphs 75(5) and (6) which provide that it is a criminal offence for an operator to breach the notice requirements of paragraph 75, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.