Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 18

18. (1) The Commission may, at any time, remove, replace, repair or maintain-

   (a)  any telecommunications installation constructed above, upon or beneath
        the surface of any land or above or beneath the surface of any waters;
        or

   (b)  any line, or other equipment affixed to any building or other
        structure erected on any land or in any waters, being a line or
        equipment for use in connexion with a telecommunications service, and
        for that purpose may enter upon, and occupy, that land or those waters
        and may remove, or erect a gate in, any fence hindering the exercise
        of those powers.

(2) Before removing, or erecting a gate in, a fence in pursuance of
sub-section (1), the Commission shall take all reasonable steps to notify, in
writing, the owner and occupier of land on which, or on the boundary of which,
the fence is erected.