In any Act or instrument amended by this Order—

• “electronic communications apparatus” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code;

• “the electronic communications code” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Act;

• “electronic communications code network” means—

  1. a

     so much of an electronic communications network or conduit system provided by an electronic communications code operator as is not excluded from the application of the electronic communications code by a direction under section 106 of the Act; and

  2. b

     an electronic communications network which the Secretary of State or a Northern Ireland department is providing or proposing to provide;

• “electronic communications code operator” means a person in whose case the electronic communications code is applied by a direction under section 106 of the Act;

• “electronic communications network” and “electronic communications service” each has the same meaning as in the Act;

• “former PTO” means a person—

  1. a

     who is a provider of a public electronic communications network or a public electronic communications service which, immediately before the date on which the repeal by the Act of section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 19842 comes into force, was designated as a public telecommunication system under section 9 of that Act; and

  2. b

     who, immediately before that date, was authorised to provide that network or service by a licence to which section 8 of that Act applied;

• “operator”, in relation to an electronic communications code network, means—

  1. a

     the electronic communications code operator providing that network; or

  2. b

     the Secretary of State or a Northern Ireland department, to the extent that they are providing or proposing to provide that network;

• “provide” and cognate expressions, in relation to an electronic communications network, an electronic communications service or associated facilities, are to be construed in accordance with section 32(4) of the Act;

• “public electronic communications network” and “public electronic communications service” each has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of the Act.