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TELEGRAPH ACT 1863 - SECT 20

Restrictions on impediments to traffic.

20. The [Post Office] shall not stop or impede traffic in any street or
public road, or into or out of any street or public road, further than is
necessary for the proper execution of their works. They shall not close
against traffic more than one third in width of any street or public road, or
of any way opening into any street or public road, at one time; and in case
two thirds of such street or road are not wide enough to allow two carriages
to pass each other, they shall not occupy with their works at one time more
than fifty yards in length of the one third thereof, except with the special
consent of the body having the control thereof.

Post Office not to place works interfering with access to land, &c. without
consent.



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