TELEGRAPH ACT 1868 - SECT 3 Interpretation of terms.

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TELEGRAPH ACT 1868 - SECT 3

Interpretation of terms.

3. Terms to which meanings are assigned by the Telegraph Act, 1863, have in
this Act the same respective meanings; and the word "land" in such
last-mentioned Act shall, in addition to the meaning thereby assigned to it,
include any term, estate, easement, interest, right, or privilege, in, over,
or affecting land, and shall include the works, tubes, wires, posts, and other
property purchased or acquired by the [Post Office].

In this Act:

The term "the undertaking" shall mean the whole or any part of the electric
and other telegraphs, wires, posts, pipes, tubes, and other works,
instruments, materials, lands, tenements, hereditaments,and buildings,
parliamentary, prescriptive, and other rights, powers, privileges, patents,
and all other property whatsoever of any company, corporation, or persons
engaged in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in transmitting
messages for money or other consideration by means of electric or other
telegraphs:

Definition rep. by 1969 c.48 s.137 sch.8 Pt.I

S.4 rep. by SLR 1960

S.5 rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2); SLR 1960

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TELEGRAPH ACT 1868 - SECT 3