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TELEGRAPH ACT 1878 - SECT 2

Definitions.

2. In the construction of this Act, unless there is something inconsistent in
the context, words and expressions shall have the same meanings as in the
Telegraph Act, 1863, and in addition thereto

The expressions "street" and "public road" shall respectively include any
highway:

The expression "Act of Parliament" means any Act of Parliament whether public
general, local and personal, or private, and includes the order confirmed by
any such Act, and includes a certificate granted by the Board of Trade under
the Railways Construction Facilities Act, 1864:

The expression "Telegraph Acts" includes the Telegraph Act, 1863, the
Telegraph Act Amendment Act, 1866, the Telegraph Act, 1868, the Telegraph Act,
1869, the Telegraph Act, 1870, this Act and any Acts or parts of Acts
incorporated with such Acts or referred to therein, any or either of them; and
such several Acts may be cited together as the Telegraphs Acts 1863 to 1878:

The expression "undertaking" means the works or undertaking of whatever nature
the execution of which is authorised by an Act of Parliament as above defined:

The expression "undertakers" means the parties, whether company,
commissioners, trustees, corporations, or private persons, empowered by an Act
of Parliament as above defined to execute an undertaking, and any lessee or
tenant thereof:

The expression "agents" includes contractors, and also the officers,
engineers, workmen, or servants, as well of the [Post Office], undertakers,
bodies or persons, as of [its] or their contractors:

The expression "telegraphic line" means telegraphs, posts, and any work
(within the meaning of the Telegraph Act, 1863) and also any cables,
apparatus, pneumatic or other tube, pipe, or thing whatsoever used for the
purpose of transmitting telegraphic messages or maintaining telegraphic
communication, and includes any portion of a telegraphic line as defined by
this Act:

The expressions "alteration," "alter," and "altering" in respect of a
telegraphic line, include the substitution of any new line or portion of a
line, either in the same place or in some other place, also any removal of or
other dealing with any telegraphic line or any part of such line.

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