Clause 19

The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 85, the following section:“Duty in excavation85A. Any person who digs, bores, trenches, grades, excavates or breaks any ground with any mechanical equipment or explosive or allows his employee or agent to do so without first ascertaining the location of any main, cable, pipe, conduit, circuit or wire belonging to or under the management or control of a telecommunication system licensee shall be guilty of an offence.”.