law: Electricity Act, 2003
  69. Notice to
  
  telegraph authority.-
  1.     
  
    A
  
  licensee shall, before laying down or placing, within ten meters of any
  
  telegraph line, electric line, electrical plant or other works, not being
  
  either service lines or electric lines or electrical plant, for the repair,
  
  renewal or amendment of existing works of which the character or position is
  
  not to be altered,--
  a.      submit a proposal in
  
  case of a new installation to an authority to be designated by the Central
  
  Government and such authority shall take a decision on the proposal within
  
  thirty days;
  b.     give not less than
  
  ten days' notice in writing to the telegraph authority in case of repair,
  
  renewal or amendment of existing works, specifying--
                       
  
   i.        
  
    the
  
  course of the works or alterations proposed;
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    the
  
  manner in which the works are to be utilised;
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    the
  
  amount and nature of the electricity to be transmitted;
                     
  
   iv.        
  
    the
  
  extent to, and the manner in which (if at all), earth returns are to be used,
  
  and the licensee shall conform to such reasonable requirements, either general
  
  or special, as may be laid down by the telegraph authority within that period
  
  for preventing any telegraph line from being injuriously affected by such works
  
  or alterations:
  Provided
  
  that  
  
  in case of emergency (which shall be stated by the licensee in writing to the
  
  telegraph authority) arising from defects in any of the electric lines or
  
  electrical plant or other works of the licensee, the licensee shall be required
  
  to give only such notice as may be possible after the necessity for the
  
  proposed new works or alterations has arisen.
  1.     
  
  
  2.     
  
    Where
  
  the works of the laying or placing of any service line is to be executed, the
  
  licensee shall, not less than forty-eight hours before commencing the work,
  
  serve upon the telegraph authority a notice in writing of his intention to
  
  execute such works.