Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983

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Precabling of housing and industrial estates.

95.—(1) The Minister, after consultation with the Minister for the Environment, may make regulations requiring persons engaged in the provision of housing and industrial estates and other building developments (including developments by local authorities) to provide such facilities as would enable telecommunications services to be provided in those buildings in the most expeditious and efficient manner.

(2) The regulations may specify the categories of development to which the regulations are to apply by reference to size, location and other relevant matters.

(3) The regulations may specify the types of facilities to be supplied or works to be carried out and may set out the conditions to be observed in the provision or construction of those facilities.

(4) The regulations may specify the rules and procedures for the inspection and certification by the company of such facilities and works.

(5) The regulations may specify any other relevant matters which the Minister considers to be desirable or necessary.