The Electronic Communications Code (Conditions and Restrictions) Regulations 2003
The electronic communications code (“the code”) is set out in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 as amended by Schedule 3 to the Communications Act 2003 (“the Act”). The code is designed to facilitate the installation and maintenance of electronic communications networks. It confers rights on providers of such networks, and on providers of systems of conduits which are made available for use by providers of electronic communications networks for the purposes of the provision of those networks, to install and maintain apparatus in, over and under land and results in considerably simplified planning procedures. Section 106(7) of the Act provides that “conduit” includes a tunnel, subway, tube or pipe. These Regulations set out restrictions and conditions subject to which the code applies.