C2 Part I
C1 Regulation of Wireless Telegraphy
Power to exclude Part I conferred by S.I. 1965/1536, art. 7(c)
1D F1 Procedures for the grant of licences providing a telecommunications service
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F103
An application for a grant of a wireless telegraphy licence shall be determined in accordance with procedures prescribed in regulations made by OFCOM.
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The procedures F11must include provision for time-limits for dealing with the grant of licences, requirements which must be met for the grant of a licence, and particulars of the terms, provisions and limitations to which licences which may be issued are to be subject.
F84A
The time limits fixed for the purposes of subsection (4) in relation to any application made after the coming into force of this subsection must require a decision on the application to be made, notified to the applicant and published—
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in the case of an application for a licence relating to a frequency allocated in accordance with the United Kingdom Plan for Frequency Authorisation, not more than six weeks after the day of the receipt of the application; and
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in any other case, as soon as possible after the receipt of the application.
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The period of six weeks specified in subsection (4A)(a) may be extended by OFCOM where it appears to them necessary to do so—
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for the purpose of enabling the requirements of any international agreement relating to frequencies or to orbital positions or to satellite Co-ordination to be complied with; or
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in a case where a determination falls to be made as to which of a number of applicants is the more or most suitable to be licensed, for the purpose of securing that the procedure for the making of that determination is fair, reasonable, open and transparent.
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That period shall not be extended by virtue of subsection (4B)(b) by more than eight months.
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F69
In imposing terms, provisions or limitations of a wireless telegraphy licence, OFCOM shall impose only those that they are satisfied are—
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objectively justifiable in relation to the networks and services to which they relate;
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not such as to discriminate unduly against particular persons or against a particular description of persons;
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proportionate to what they are intended to achieve; and
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in relation to what they are intended to achieve, transparent.
Pt. I (ss. 1-8) excluded (23.6.1999) by S.I. 1999/1736, art. 7(1)