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CONDITIONS INCLUDED UNDER SECTION 7 OF THE ACT
PART 1: DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION RELATING TO THE CONDITIONS IN SCHEDULE 1
1.In this Schedule unless the context otherwise requires: “Accounting Rate...
2.Expressions cognate with those referred to in this Schedule shall...
3.Any reference in any Condition in this Schedule, however expressed,...
4.Subject to paragraph 5 below, if the Director is considering...
5.Paragraph 4 does not apply in relation to any determination,...
6.Where the Director makes a determination for the purposes of...
PART 2: GENERAL CONDITIONSREQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES
REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE DIRECTORY SERVICES
2.1.Where the Licensee provides Publicly Available Telephone Services by means...
2.2.The Licensee shall ensure that: (a) Directory Information concerning each...
2.3.The Directory Information Service and directories referred to in paragraphs...
2.4.The obligation under paragraph 2.1(a) above does not apply to...
2.5.The obligation in paragraph 2.2 above applies whether or not...
2.6.The directories referred to in this Condition may be produced...
2.7.The Licensee may charge end-users a reasonable fee for making...
2.8.Where the Licensee provides switched voice telephony services by means...
2.9.The Directory Information Service provided by the Licensee under paragraph...
2.10.Where the Licensee provides switched voice telephony services by means...
PROVISION BY OTHERS OF SERVICES BY MEANS OF THE APPLICABLE SYSTEMS
REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE CONNECTION SERVICES INCLUDING CO-LOCATION AND FACILITY SHARING
9.1.Subject to paragraphs 9.3 and 9.4 and any exercise by...
9.2.The Licensee or the Schedule 2 Public Operator may at...
9.3.The Licensee shall: (a) comply with the requirements of any...
9.4.Paragraph 9.1 above does not apply to the extent that...
9.5.So long as section 11 of the Restrictive Trade Practices...
9.6.The Licensee shall comply with any request by the Director...
9.7.Where the Director so directs the Crown shall be treated...
12.1.The Licensee shall not render any bill in respect of...
12.2.Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 12.1 the Licensee...
12.3.The Licensee shall not be regarded as being in contravention...
12.4.The Licensee shall keep such records as may be necessary...
12.5.For the purpose of giving the Director an independent quality...
15.1.Publication of Commonly Provided Interfaces within 90 days
15.3.Where the Licensee does not have Interface Control in relation...
15.4.Modifications of Commonly Provided Interface Specifications
15.7.Amendments of Interface Specifications directed by the Director
15.9.Nothing in this Condition shall require the Licensee to publish...
16.1.The Licensee shall take full account of such standards, if...
16.2.The Director may, having first notified the Licensee of his...
16.3.Where in pursuance of paragraph 16.2 the Director specifies an...
16.4.(a) For the purposes of paragraph 16.3 “Relevant Standard” means:...
16.5.Where the Director has been unable in accordance with paragraph...
16.6.The Director shall specify a Relevant Standard in pursuance of...
16.8.When implementing an Essential Interface, the Licensee shall not be...
16.9.It is a precondition of any obligation on the Licensee...
CONSULTATION WITH EMERGENCY ORGANISATIONS AND PROVISION OF SERVICES IN EMERGENCIES
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS AND ESSENTIAL PUBLIC INTERESTS
20.1.The Licensee shall comply with any decision taken in accordance...
20.2.The Licensee shall comply with any notice served on it...
20.3.The Licensee shall take all reasonably practicable steps to maintain,...
20.4.The Licensee shall take all reasonably practicable steps to maintain,...
20.5.The Licensee shall ensure that any restrictions imposed by it...
20.6.The Licensee shall ensure that any restrictions imposed by it...
20.7.The Licensee shall take all necessary steps in order to...
20.8.The Licensee shall not impose any restrictions on the use...
20.9.The Licensee may impose conditions on access to and use...
22.1.The Licensee may provide a Controlled Service in whole or...
22.2.The Licensee may provide a telecommunication service to another person...
22.3.The Relevant Condition is that there is in effect at...
22.4.A code of practice shall be recognised for the purposes...
22.5.A code of practice is recognised for the purposes of...
22.6.For the purposes of this Condition the Director may recognise...
22.8.The Director may determine, subject to such conditions as he...
22.9.Subject to paragraph 22.8, the provisions of this Condition apply...
22.10.The provisions of this Condition shall cease to have effect...
PROVISION OF SPECIAL FACILITIES RELATING TO CHATLINE AND MESSAGE SERVICES
26.1.The Director may determine a Specified Numbering Scheme (the “Scheme”)...
26.2.The Licensee shall adopt a Numbering Plan for such Numbers...
26.3.The Licensee shall install, maintain and adjust its switched Applicable...
26.4.(a) The Licensee shall provide to the Director, on request,...
26.5.(a) The Conventions referred to in this Condition will be...
26.6.In deciding on the details of and any subsequent changes...
26.7.The Licensee shall not, unless the Director consents otherwise, charge...
26.8.For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that...
26.9.The Numbers to which this Condition applies are Numbers:
NUMBERING ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER NUMBERS
27.1.Subject to Condition 26, the Licensee shall, from the date...
27.2.The Numbering Plan shall describe the method adopted or to...
27.4.The Licensee shall furnish to the Director details of any...
27.5.Where any arrangements for allocating or re-allocating Numbers within the...
27.6.The Numbers to which this Condition applies do not include...
27.7.The Licensee shall allocate and re-allocate Numbers in accordance with...
28.1.This Condition applies to the Licensee only to the extent...
28.2.The Licensee shall provide Portability either to any Qualifying Operator,...
28.3.“Qualifying Operator” means an Operator who: (a) has notified the...
28.4.For the purposes of this Condition the Extent of Portability...
28.5.Where a notice for the purposes of paragraph 28.3 has...
28.6.Before making any determination under paragraph 28.5 the Director shall...
28.7.If requested in writing by the Director, the Licensee shall...
28.8.Where the Licensee does not yet offer the facility of...
OBLIGATION TO SUPPLY NUMBERING INFORMATION ON REQUEST
29.1.Where the Licensee has been allocated telephone numbers by the...
29.2.Where the Licensee has been sub-allocated telephone numbers whether by...
29.3.The Licensee shall supply any information under paragraph 29.1 or...
29.4.The Licensee shall supply any information under paragraph 29.1 or...
29.5.The Licensee shall supply any information under paragraph 29.1 or...
29.6.Where the Licensee is requested to supply Directory Information in...
29.7.Where the Licensee, pursuant to this Condition, supplies to any...
ACCOUNTING SEPARATION FOR SPECIAL OR EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS IN NON-TELECOMMUNICATION SECTORS
31.1.The Licensee shall not do anything, whether by act or...
31.3.Whether any act or omission is prohibited by this Condition...
31.6.(a) Before making his Initial Determination or Final Determination the...
31.7.The Director shall publish a description of his office's procedures...
31.10.The prohibition in paragraph 31.1(b) shall not apply to acts...
REQUIREMENT TO FURNISH INFORMATION TO THE DIRECTOR
33.1.Without prejudice to any other provision in this Licence relating...
33.2.In making any such request the Director shall ensure that...
33.3.Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 33.1 and notwithstanding...
33.4.The Licensee shall provide financial information to the Director promptly...
33.5.Where the Licensee is running a Fixed Public Telephone System...
33.6.In this Condition “documents” includes, without prejudice to the generality...
BODIES RECOGNISED TO BE REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF CONSUMERS
PART B: OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE SERVICES OTHER THAN VOICE TELEPHONY ON REQUEST
REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES, OTHERTHAN VOICE TELEPHONY SERVICES, ON REQUEST
PART C: OPERATORS WITH SIGNIFICANT MARKET POWER FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE INTERCONNECTION DIRECTIVE
45.1.Subject to paragraphs 45.6 and 45.7 and any exercise by...
45.2.The Licensee or the Schedule 2 Public Operator may at...
45.3.The Licensee shall secure that the agreement or amendment referred...
45.5.The Licensee shall: (a) comply with the requirements of any...
45.6.So long as section 11 of the Restrictive Trade Practices...
45.7.Paragraph 45.1 above does not apply to the extent that...
45.9.Where the Director so directs, the Crown shall be treated...
REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENTS WITH SCHEDULE 2 PUBLIC OPERATORS
47.2.The Licensee shall ensure that the amount applied and incorporated...
47.4.The Licensee may set different tariffs, terms and conditions for...
47.6.The Licensee shall send the Network Charge Change Notice to...
47.7.When the Director decides to investigate a proposed charge for...
47.8.Without prejudice to Condition 33, if, in the opinion of...
47.9.If, before it comes into effect, the Licensee withdraws a...
47.10.Determination of Competitive Standard Services and Prospectively Competitive Standard Services
47.11.Other Publication Requirements relating to the Standard List and Network Charge Change Notices
47.12.Except to the extent that the Director may consent to...
47.13.The Licensee shall send a copy of the current Standard...
REQUIREMENT TO MEET REQUESTS FOR ACCESS OTHER THAN FROM SCHEDULE 2 PUBLIC OPERATORS
48.1.Except in relation to agreements with Schedule 2 Public Operators...
48.2.An agreement to provide Interconnection to the Applicable Systems shall...
48.3.The Licensee shall provide such Interconnection on charges, terms and...
48.4.Where the Licensee or a member of the Licensee's Group...
48.5.The Licensee or the person requesting Interconnection may at any...
48.6.The Licensee shall: (a) comply with the requirements of any...
REQUIREMENT TO SEND INDIVIDUAL AGREEMENTS TO THE DIRECTOR AND TO PUBLISH THEM
49.1.On entering into an Interconnection agreement (including amendments), pursuant to...
49.2.Either party to an agreement or amendment referred to in...
49.3.A determination made in response to a requirement under paragraph...
49.4.The Licensee shall: (a) where no request has been made...
49.6.The Licensee shall, within a reasonable period following a request,...
49.7.Any information received by a Licensee from any person for...
49.8.The Licensee shall comply with any request by the Director...
REQUIREMENT TO HAVE COST ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS AND ACCOUNTING SEPARATION FOR INTERCONNECTION PURPOSES
50.1.The Licensee shall maintain a cost accounting system which, having...
50.2.The Licensee shall make available to any person on request...
50.3.The Licensee shall be deemed to be complying with the...
50.4.Where the annual turnover of the Licensee in telecommunications activities...
50.4A.The Licensee shall also prepare in respect of each financial...
50.5.For each financial year ending on or after 1 January...
50.5A.The Licensee shall procure in respect of each Standard Service...
50.6.For each financial year ending on or after 1 January...
50.7.Any requirement to which the Licensee would otherwise be subject...
QUALITY OF SERVICE AND PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL FACILITIES
52.1.The Licensee shall keep up-to-date information concerning its performance based...
52.2.Where the Director has set quality of service standards or...
52.4.Where, pursuant to regulation 19(3)(c) of the Revised Voice Telephony...
52.5.The Licensee shall, subject to technical feasibility and economic viability,...
52.6.Where the Licensee provides any of the facilities described in...
53.1.This Condition applies where the Licensee receives a request from...
53.2.The Licensee shall deal with reasonable requests for special network...
53.3.The Licensee shall grant the organisation making the request an...
53.4.Where the Licensee denies a request for special network access,...
53.5.Subject to intervention by the Director pursuant to regulations 26(1)(b),...
53.6.Where the Director makes a direction pursuant to regulation 26(3)...
53.7.The Licensee shall make available to the Director, at his...
53.8.The Licensee shall provide special network access facilities and information...
TARIFFS, COST ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES, AND DISCOUNT SCHEMES
54.2.The Licensee shall ensure that tariffs for the provision of...
54.3.Without prejudice to Conditions 47.4 and 47.6, the Licensee shall...
54.4.The Licensee shall ensure that tariffs for facilities additional to...
54.5.The Licensee shall only implement changes to its tariffs referred...
54.6.The Licensee shall: (a) place a copy of such changes...
54.7.The Licensee shall operate a cost accounting system suitable for...
54.8.The Licensee shall make available to the Director at his...
54.9.The Licensee shall ensure that discount schemes offered by the...
54.10.The Licensee shall ensure that, with respect to the application...
54.11.The Licensee shall modify or withdraw such scheme as the...
55.2.This Condition applies to the Licensee only to the extent...
55.4.The Licensee shall publish the notice in paragraph 55.3 by:...
55.5.The Licensee shall publish the supply conditions published in accordance...
55.7.Without prejudice to any other remedy or right of appeal...
55.9.No technical restrictions shall be introduced or maintained for the...
55.10.In relation to Relevant Private Circuits, the Licensee shall not...
55.11.Where a user's Terminal Equipment no longer complies with the...
55.12.Provision of a Minimum Set of Relevant Private Circuits
55.14.Nothing in this Condition shall prevent the Licensee, where it...
55.16.The Licensee shall formulate and put in practice a cost...
55.17.Other cost accounting systems may be applied only if they...
PART F: MARKET INFLUENCEDETERMINATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF MARKET INFLUENCE
PROPORTIONATE RETURN IN RESPECT OF INTERNATIONAL CONVEYANCE SERVICES
INFORMATION TO THE DIRECTOR ABOUT INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING RATES ETC
ACCOUNTING SEPARATION FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
62.1.Without prejudice to any other provision in this Licence relating...
62.2.This paragraph refers to all transactions between that International Business...
62.3.The Licensee shall update the accounting records referred to in...
62.4.The Director may at any time request from the Licensee...
62.5.Accounting records submitted to the Director shall be prepared in...
64.1.Unless the context otherwise requires and subject to paragraph 64.10,...
64.4.Subject to paragraph 64.10, the obligation to provide any service...
64.5.The obligation to provide any telecommunication service other than a...
64.7.Nothing in these Conditions shall prevent the Licensee from withdrawing...
64.8.Nothing in these Conditions shall require the Licensee to provide...
64.9.This Condition shall apply without prejudice to any limitation or...
64.10.This Condition does not apply to: Condition 2.1, 2.2, 2.3,...
64.11.Only paragraphs 64.1, 64.2, 64.3 and 64.9 apply to: Condition...
64.12.Only paragraphs 64.1, 64.6(a) and 64.9 apply to Condition 19.2...
64.13.Only paragraphs 64.1, 64.2, 64.3, 64.6 and 64.9 apply to...
64.14.Only paragraphs 64.1, 64.2, 64.3, 64.5(b) and 64.9 apply to...
64.15.Only paragraphs 64.1, 64.2, 64.3, 64.5, 64.7 and 64.9 apply...
64.16.Paragraph 64.2 does not apply to Condition 62 (Accounting Separation...
EXCEPTIONS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE APPLICATION OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CODE
PART 1: DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION RELATING TO THE CONDITIONS IN SCHEDULE 4
PART 2: EXCEPTIONS AND CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE APPLICATION OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CODELINES
1.1.Without prejudice to Condition 5.1 and subject to paragraph 1.7,...
1.2.Notwithstanding paragraph 1.1, but subject to Condition 4, nothing in...
1.3.Notwithstanding paragraph 1.1, but subject to Condition 4, nothing in...
1.4.Notwithstanding paragraph 1.1, but subject to Condition 4, nothing in...
1.5.Where telecommunication services are to be provided to a person...
1.6.Lines Installed over the Carriageway of a Maintainable Highway or,...
1.7.Nothing in this Condition or Condition 5 shall prevent the...
1.8.The Licensee shall consider carefully a request by any person...
INSTALLATION OF TELECOMMUNICATION APPARATUS OTHER THAN LINES ABOVE THE GROUND
2.1.Subject to Condition 12.1, the Licensee shall, 28 days prior...
2.2.Subject to Condition 12.1 the Licensee shall, before Installing radio...
2.3.The Licensee shall Install the Apparatus in accordance with the...
2.4.Subject to Condition 4, nothing in this Condition shall prevent...
2.5.Nothing in paragraph 2.4 shall prevent the Installation of cabinets,...
2.6.Subject to Condition 4, nothing in this Condition shall prevent...
2.7.The requirements in paragraph 2.2 and 2.4 do not apply...
2.8.For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Condition applies...
3.1.Subject to paragraphs 3.2 and 3.5, without prejudice to Conditions...
3.2.Notwithstanding paragraph 3.1, but subject to Condition 4, the Licensee...
3.3.Notwithstanding paragraphs 3.1 and 3.2 above nothing in this Condition...
3.4.Before Installing a pole under paragraph 3.3(g) the Licensee shall...
3.5.Notwithstanding paragraph 3.1, but subject to Conditions 4 and 5,...
3.6.For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in paragraph 3.2 applies...
5.1.Subject to paragraph 5.2 and to Condition 1.7, and except...
5.2.Where the Relevant Authority notifies the Licensee in writing within...
5.3.The Licensee shall also comply with any direction given to...
5.4.The Licensee shall not be required to give notice pursuant...
5.5.For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Condition applies...
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