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Telecommunications Act 1991
131A carrier may replace, repair and maintain facilities etc.
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##### 131 A carrier may replace, repair and maintain facilities etc.
(1) A carrier may, at any time, alter, move, remove, replace or maintain:
(a) a facility constructed on, over or under any land; or
(b) a facility attached to a building or other structure.
(2) For the purpose of exercising powers under subsection (1), a carrier may enter on, and occupy, land and may remove, or erect a gate in, any fence.
(3) Before removing, or erecting a gate in, a fence, a carrier must take all reasonable steps to give written notice of its intention to do so to the owner of the land on which, or on the boundary of which, the fence is erected.