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(3) The Authority shall, when allocating a number capacity,
specify, in writing, the purpose for which such capacity may be used.
(4) A licensee may apply in writing to the Authority, with
the necessary justification to supply it with additional number capacity
or address capacity.
(5) A licensee shall use only the number or address
capacity allocated to it in accordance with subregulation (3), and only
for the purpose for which it has been allocated.

(6) The Authority may revoke the number or address
capacity allocated to the licensee if not used for the purpose for which
it was intended or for any other reasonable cause as may have been
disclosed to the licensee by the Authority.
Infrastructure
sharing

35. (1) The Authority shall establish guidelines which set a framework
within which communications operators can negotiate and conclude
sharing arrangements for communications infrastructure.
(2) The Authority may direct communications operators to share
infrastructure in order to promote and maintain competition in the
market.

Right to enter
upon land and
construct lines

36. (1) A licensee may, for the purposes of providing a
telecommunications service, seek permission in writing to the local
authority or any person owning or having the control and management
of any land, street, road, footpath, waterway or railway(a)

to enter upon such land, street, road, footpath, waterway
or railway and there construct or maintain or remove
any telecommunication line or pipe or conduct any other
work necessary for such lines upon, under, over, along
or across any such land, street, road, footpath, waterway
or railway; and

(b)

to alter or cause to be altered the position, under the
ground, of any pipe other than a sewer, drain or mains
for the supply of water, gas or electricity.

(2) A local authority or person to which or to whom any such
pipe belongs or by which or by whom it is used shall be entitled, while
work in connection with the removal or alteration in the position
thereof is in progress, to supervise that work, and the licensee shall pay
all expenses incurred by such local authority or person in connection
with such removal or alteration or in connection with the supervision of
the work relating to such removal or alteration.

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