The Public Telecommunication System Designation (Frontel Communications Limited) Order 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 166

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

The Public Telecommunication System Designation (Frontel Communications Limited) Order 1998

Made

28th February 1998

Laid before Parliament

2nd February 1998

Coming into force

3rd March 1998

Whereas the Secretary of State has granted to Frontel Communications Limited on 14th October 1997 a licence (“the Licence”) under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984(1) (“the Act”), to which section 8 of the Act applies, for the running of the telecommunication systems specified in the Licence (“the Applicable Systems”):

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 9 of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Frontel Communications Limited) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 3rd March 1998.

2.  Each of the Applicable Systems is hereby designated as a public telecommunication system.

Barbara Roche,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry,

Department of Trade and Industry

28th January 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Secretary of State granted to Frontel Communications Limited a licence on 14th October 1997 under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 to run the telecommunication systems specified in the licence. A copy of the licence was laid before Parliament on 2nd February 1998. This Order designates those telecommunication systems as public telecommunication systems. Consequently, by virtue of section 9(3) of that Act, Frontel Communications Limited will be a public telecommunications operator when the Order comes into force on 3rd March 1998.

A copy of the licence may be obtained from the Office of Telecommunications, 50 Ludgate Hill, London, EC4M 7JJ.

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1984 c. 12.