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Membership of OFCOM not a disqualification for membership of an existing regulator etc.

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20Nothing in any enactment or rule of law, or in the terms of any person’s appointment, shall be taken as preventing any of the members of OFCOM (including the chairman or deputy chairman), by reason only of his membership of OFCOM—

(a)from being appointed to or holding office as the Director General of Telecommunications or as a member (including the chairman or deputy chairman) of any other existing regulator;

(b)from taking part in any decision or discussion relating to OFCOM at any meeting of an existing regulator or of any committee established by an existing regulator; or

(c)from being engaged in any activities connected with the carrying out of the Secretary of State’s functions relating to wireless telegraphy.

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