Telegraph Act 1899
1899 c.38
An Act to make further Provision for the Improvement of Telephonic Communication, and otherwise with respect to Telegraphs.
[9th August 1899]
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 Payment of expenses of exercise of powers under telephone licence.
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(1) Where the council of a borough or a district are licensed to run a public telecommunication system (within the meaning of the Telecommunications Act 1984), they may . . .  borrow money for the purpose . . .  and the council may, subject to the provisions . . . of the licence, exercise their powers under the licence throughout the area for which it is granted, although part of that area may be outside the borough or district.
(2) In the application of this Act to Scotland, a royal or parliamentary burgh shall be substituted for a borough, and a police burgh for a district . . . 
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 Short title.
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This Act may be cited as the Telegraph Act 1899, . . . 