SCHEDULE 1 The Electronic Communications Code

SCHEDULE 1 The Electronic Communications Code

Section 4

This is the Schedule to be inserted before Schedule 4 to the Communications Act 2003—

“SCHEDULE 3A
The Electronic Communications Code
Section 106
Part 1
Key Concepts
Introductory
1

(1)     This Part defines some key concepts used in this code.

(2)     For definitions of other terms used in this code, see—

(a)     paragraph 94 (meaning of “the courtâ€).

(b)     paragraph 105 (meaning of “occupierâ€),

(c)     paragraph 108 (general interpretation),

(d)     section 32 (meaning of electronic communications networks and services), and

(e)     section 405 (general interpretation).

The operator
2

In this code “operator†means—

(a)     where this code is applied in any person's case by a direction under section 106, that person, and

(b)     where this code applies by virtue of section 106(3)(b), the Secretary of State or (as the case may be) the Northern Ireland department in question.

The code rights
3

For the purposes of this code a “code rightâ€, in relation to an operator and any land, is a right for the statutory purposes—

(a)     to install electronic communications apparatus on, under or over the land,

(b)     to keep installed electronic

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