The Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Regional Public Access Mobile Radio Operator Licences) Regulations 2000

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The Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Regional Public Access Mobile Radio Operator Licences) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Made

28 th June 2000

Laid before Parliament

30 th June 2000

Coming into force

21 st July 2000

The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in respect of measures relating to telecommunications, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Regional Public Access Mobile Radio Operator Licences) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 21 st July 2000.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations—

“the 1984 Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984(3);

“the former licences” means the relevant licences in the form they were in immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations;

“the modified licences” means the relevant licences as amended by these Regulations; and

“the relevant licences” means the licences granted by the Secretary of State under section 7 of the 1984 Act to the persons specified in column 1 of Parts A and B of Schedule 1 hereto on the date specified against each person in column 2 thereof.

Modification of the relevant licences

3. The relevant licences are hereby modified as follows:—

(a) for the Table of Contents there shall be substituted the Table of Contents set out in Schedule 2 hereto;

(b) in paragraph 1—

(i) the words “for the period specified in paragraph 2” shall be deleted; and

(ii) in the case of the licences specified in Part A of Schedule 1 hereto for the words “(each of which is hereinafter referred to as ‘the Applicable System’)” there shall be substituted the words “(‘the Applicable Systems’)”;

(c) in paragraph 2 for the words after “duration” to the end there shall be substituted the words “in the first instance but, without prejudice to Schedule 2 to this Licence, shall be subject to revocation thereafter on ten years' notice in writing of such revocation and such notice shall accordingly not be given before the end of the fifteenth year after the granting of the Licence.”;

(d) in the case of the licences specified in Part A of Schedule 1 hereto, for paragraphs 3 to 6 inclusive there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“Interpretation

3. The Interpretation Act 1978 shall apply for the purposes of interpreting this Licence as if it were an Act of Parliament. In this Licence, except as hereinafter provided or unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions shall have the meaning assigned to them and otherwise any word or expression shall have the same meaning as it has in the Act. For the purposes of interpreting this Licence, headings and titles shall be disregarded.

4. In this Licence, ‘Licence’ means a licence granted or having effect as if granted under section 7 of the Act.

5. For the purposes of this Licence the ‘Applicable Systems’ means any or all of the telecommunication systems run by the Licensee under thi...

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