Save as provided in paragraph (2), the Advanced Television Services Regulations 1996 M1 and the Advanced Television Services (Amendment) Regulations 1996 M2 are hereby revoked.

Regulations 1, 3, 6, 8(1), 9, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of, and Schedule 2 to, the Advanced Television Services Regulations 1996 shall remain in force in respect of television sets (within the meaning of regulation 6 thereof) and consumer equipment (within the meaning of regulation 9 thereof) which (in either case) were put on the market in any member State before 25th July 2003; and references in those Regulations to “the Director” shall be treated as references to the Office of Communications from the time (or from the first time if there is more than one) at which the transitional period provided for in section 408 of the Communications Act 2003 M3 ends in respect of a function to be carried on by the Director thereunder.