TELEVISION RECEPTION DISHES ACT 1986

[Consolidated as at 14 July 2003

on the authority of the Administrator

and in accordance with the

Enactments Reprinting Act 1980]

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

         1.      Short title

         2.      Application

         3.      Interpretation

         4.      Installation of landlines 

Television Reception Dishes Act 1986

An Act relating to television reception dishes

Short title

      1.         This Act may be cited as the Television Reception Dishes Act 1986.

Application

      2.         (1)        Nothing in this Act affects the operation of the Building Act 1967.

                  (2)        This Act applies notwithstanding the Telecommunications Act 1992.

Interpretation

      3.         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

“landline” means a wire, cable or other physical medium that is laid under the surface of the earth for use, or intended for use, to connect a television reception dish and a television receiver;

“owner”, in relation to land, includes occupier;

“television reception dish” means an apparatus designed or intended for the reception of signals transmitted by satellite of —

(a)        sounds, including speech and music; or

(b)        visual images,

whether or not capable of being used for other purposes. Installation of landlines

      4.         (1)        A person may instal and maintain a landline that is wholly within and on land of which that person is the owner.

                  (2)        Subject to the permission of the owner of a parcel of land, a person may instal and maintain, from a television reception dish erected on the person’s land, a landline that is on a parcel of land of which the person is not the owner.

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