SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Minor and Consequential Amendments

Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

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The Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2)) shall be amended as follows.

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In Article 44 (restrictions on disclosure of information)—

(a)

in paragraph (3)(b), for head (vi) there shall be substituted—

“(vi)

the Office of Communications;”;

(b)

in paragraph (4), after sub-paragraph (v) there shall be inserted—

“(w)

the Communications Act 2003.”

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(1)

Schedule 3 (other powers etc. of licence holders) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 1(1)—

(a)

for “a public telecommunications operator” there shall be substituted “ an electronic communications code operator ”;

(b)

for “telecommunication system” there shall be substituted “ electronic communications network ”.

(3)

In paragraphs 4 and 6 for “public telecommunications operator” there shall be substituted “ electronic communications code operator ”.

(4)

In paragraphs 3(1), (2) and (3), 5(1) and (2), 6(1) and 8—

(a)

for “telecommunication apparatus”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ electronic communications apparatus ”;

(b)

for “a telecommunication system”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ an electronic communications network ”;

(c)

for “telecommunications code”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ electronic communications code ”.