SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 2FOR THE PROTECTION OF OPERATORS OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CODE NETWORKS

15.  In this Part of this Schedule—

the 2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”)(1);

electronic communications apparatus” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code;

the electronic communications code” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the 2003 Act(2);

electronic communications code network” means—

(a)

so much of an electronic communications network or infrastructure system provided by an electronic communications code operator as is not excluded from the application of the electronic communications code by a direction under section 106 (application of the electronic communications code) of the 2003 Act; and

(b)

an electronic communications network which the undertaker is providing or proposing to provide;

electronic communications code operator” means a person in whose case the electronic communications code is applied by a direction under section 106 of the 2003 Act;

infrastructure system” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code and references to providing an infrastructure system are to be construed in accordance with paragraph 7 of that code; and

operator” means the operator of an electronic communications code network.

(2)

See section 106, which was amended by section 4(3) to (9) of the Digital Economy Act 2017 (c. 30).