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The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] in respect of measures relating to telecommunications, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations: Citation and commencement 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Kingston Communications (Hull) PLC) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 27th September 1999. Interpretation 2. In these Regulations -
Modification of the Kingston licence
(b) For paragraphs 1 to 3 there shall be substituted the following paragraphs -
2. The Telecommunications Code contained in Schedule 2 to the Act shall apply to the Licensee for all purposes except those not relating to the Applicable Systems and subject to the other exceptions and conditions set out in Schedule 4 for so long as the Licence granted to it is one to which section 8 of the Act applies. Duration 3. This Licence shall enter into force on 1st January 1988 and shall continue in force until 24th June 2009 in the first instance but, without prejudice to Schedule 2 to this Licence, shall be subject to revocation thereafter on ten years' notice in writing of such revocation and such notice shall accordingly not be given before 25th June 1999. Interpretation 4. The Interpretation Act 1978 shall apply for the purpose of interpreting this Licence as if it were an Act of Parliament. In this Licence, except as hereinafter provided or unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions shall have the meaning assigned to them and otherwise any word or expression shall have the same meaning as it has in the Act. For the purpose of interpreting this Licence, headings and titles shall be disregarded. 5. In this Licence, "Licence" means a licence granted or having effect as if granted under section 7 of the Act and the "Licensed Area" means the area outlined in red on the map attached at Annex B to this Licence. 6. For the purposes of this Licence the "Applicable Systems" means any or all of the telecommunication systems run by the Licensee under this Licence unless the context otherwise requires. 7. Where this Licence provides for any power of the Secretary of State or the Director to give any direction, notice or consent or for the Director to make any specification, designation or determination, it implies, unless a contrary intention appears, a power exercisable in the same manner and subject to the same conditions or limitations, to revoke, amend or give or make again any such direction, notice, consent, specification, designation or determination; and any reference however expressed to the Director making any determination or giving any direction or consent about any matter shall be construed as making such determination or giving such direction or consent after consultation with the Licensee and where appropriate with any other person who may have a relevant interest in the matter to which the determination, direction or consent relates. 8. Any notification which is required to be given under this Licence by the Secretary of State or the Director shall be satisfied by serving the document by post on the Licensee at the Licensee's registered office.";
(d) for Schedule 2 there shall be substituted Schedule 2 of the standard Schedules; (e) for Schedule 3 there shall be substituted Schedule 3 of the standard Schedules; (f) for Schedule 4 there shall be substituted Schedule 4 of the standard Schedules; and (g) for Annex A there shall be substituted Annex A as set out in Schedule 3 hereto.
Transitional provisions
(b) expired whenever it would have expired if the former licence had not been modified;
and any rights, liabilities, obligations or requirements dependent on the beginning, duration or end of such a period as mentioned above shall be under the modified licence as they were or would have been under the former licence. THE LICENCE 1 Requirement to provide Telecommunication Services 2 Requirement to provide Directory Services 3 Requirement to provide International Conveyance Services or International Directory Services 4 Access to Emergency Call Services and Operator Assistance 5 Connection of Systems and Apparatus 6 Provision by Others of Services by means of the Applicable Systems 7 Publication of Charges, Terms and Conditions 8 Prohibition on Undue Preference and Undue Discrimination 9 Requirement to Provide Connection Services including Co-location and Facility Sharing 10 Requirement to offer Contracts for Telephone Services 11 Metering Arrangements 12 Billing Arrangements 13 Itemised Bills 14 Non Payment of Bills 15 Publication of Interfaces 16 Essential Interfaces 17 Use of Automatic Calling Equipment 18 Restrictions on Advertising 19 Consultation with Emergency Organisations and Provision of Services in Emergencies 20 Essential Requirements and Essential Public Interests 21 Standards for ISDN Network Termination Points 22 Controlled Services 23 Provision of Special Facilities Relating to Chatline and Message Services 24 Public Call Box Services 25 Supply and Connection of Apparatus for Disabled People 26 Numbering Arrangements 27 Numbering Arrangements for Other Numbers 28 Number Portability 29 Obligation to Supply Numbering Information on Request 30 Accounting Separation for Special or Exclusive Rights in Non-Telecommunication sectors 31 Fair Trading 32 Conciliation and Resolution of Disputes 33 Requirement to Furnish Information to the Director 34 Notification of Changes in Shareholdings 35 Licensee's Group 36 Payment of Fees 37 Bodies Recognised to be Representing the Interests of Consumers 38 Determination of Provider of Universal Services 39 Universal Service Fund 40 Requirement to provide Telephone Services on Request 41 Schemes for Users with Special Social Needs 42 Provision of Public Call Box Services 43 Requirement to provide Telecommunication Services, other than Voice Telephony Services, on Request 44 Determination of Significant Market Power 45 Interconnection Agreements with Schedule 2 Public Operators including co-location and facility sharing 46 Requirement to Publish a reference interconnection offer 47 Requirements relating to Interconnection Agreements with Schedule 2 Public Operators 48 Requirement to meet Requests for Access other than from Schedule 2 Public Operators 49 Requirement to Send Individual Agreements to the Director and to Publish Them 50 Requirement to have Cost Accounting Systems and Accounting Separation for Interconnection Purposes 51 Scope of Application of this Part 52 Quality of Service and Provision of Additional Facilities 53 Special Network Access 54 Tariffs, Cost Accounting Principles and Discount Schemes 55 Leased Lines 56 Determination by the Director of Market Influence 57 Prohibition on Undue Preference and Undue Discrimination 58 Publication of Charges, Terms and Conditions 59 Proportionate Return in respect of the provision of International Simple Voice Resale Services 60 Proportionate Return in respect of International Conveyance Services 61 Information to the Director about International Accounting Rates etc. 62 Accounting Separation for International Business 63 Maintenance of Effective Competition 64 Exceptions and Limitations on Obligations in Schedule 1 65 Prohibition on Cross-Subsidies 66 Control of Hard-Wired and Other Telephone Rentals 67 Separate Accounts for Certain Activities 68 Supply of Directories and Databases for provision of Directory Services 1 Lines 2 Installation of telecommunication apparatus other than Lines above the ground 3 Conservation areas 4 Listed buildings and ancient monuments 5 National Parks etc. 6 National Trust and National Trust for Scotland 7 Placing of underground lines in ducts 8 Maintenance and the safety of apparatus 9 Arrangements with electricity suppliers 10 Instructions for the installation of apparatus 11 Records of apparatus 12 Emergency Works and Urgent Works 13 Public or private events and construction sites etc. 14 Emergency Organisations 15 Public inspection of code related licence conditions 16 Funds for meeting liabilities Amendments to Schedule 1 of the standard Schedules 1. In paragraph 1 of Part 1 after the definition of "Value Added Service" there shall be inserted the following -
(ii) the installation, maintenance, adjustment, repair, alteration, moving, removal or replacement of any telecommunication apparatus where those activities are not part of the Systems Business nor part of the Supplemental Services Business;
2.
In condition 38, for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted the following paragraph -
3.
In each of Conditions 40, 41 and 42 the words " To the extent that this is a Specified Condition" shall be deleted.
5.
In paragraph 1 of condition 57, for the words "Where a determination" to "in the manner set out below" inclusive there shall be substituted the following words -
6.
In condition 58
7.
After condition 64 there shall be inserted the following - Condition 65 65.1 Where it appears to the Director that the Licensee is unfairly cross-subsidising or unfairly subsidising:
(b) the provision in the United Kingdom of Mobile Radio Tails Service; (c) the Supplemental Services Business under this Licence:
it shall take such steps as the Director may direct for the purpose of remedying the situation.
(b) a transfer from one business to another business or a company takes place when any thing (including any service or money) produced or acquired by, normally used in, or otherwise at the disposal of, the first mentioned business is made available for the purposes of the other business or the company; and (c) "full cost" in the case of money transferred includes the market rate of interest for that money.
65.4
This Condition shall apply with the omission of paragraph 65.1(a) if and for so long as the supply of telecommunication apparatus by the Licensee does not constitute a monopoly situation within the meaning of section 6 of the Fair Trading Act 1973, but with the substitution of the words "Licensed Area" for the words "United Kingdom" whenever they appear in that section. 66.1 The Licensee shall ensure that no periodic or other charge in respect of renting from the Licensee telephone apparatus to which paragraph 66.2 applies increases by more than the amount of the change in the retail prices index (as so defined) in each period of 12 months ending on 30 June. 66.2 This paragraph applies to telephones, other than telephones described in paragraph 66.3 below ("the excepted telephones"), which are not capable of being connected to the Licensee's Applicable Systems at a Network Termination Point by means of a fitted plug which complies with British Standard number 6312: 1985 as published on 28 February 1985, for example, telephones which are only capable of being connected to those Systems by means of hard-wiring or round-pin plugs. 66.3 The excepted telephone are:
(b) telephones which are connected to the Applicable Systems by means of a single line PBX; and (c) telephones which are connected by a means other than a plug of the kind described in paragraph 66.2 above for the purposes of ensuring safety in a hazardous environment.
67.1 The Licensee shall:
(b) prepare in respect of each complete financial year of the Licensee, or of such lesser periods as the Director may specify but not more frequently than quarterly, accounting statements setting out, and, in the case of yearly statements, fairly presenting, the costs (including capital costs), revenue and financial position of each of the Systems Business and the Apparatus Supply Business and including a reasonable assessment of the assets employed in and liabilities attributable to each of them and showing separately, in the case of yearly accounting statements, the amount of any material item of revenue, cost, asset or liability which has been either:
(ii) determined by apportionment or attribution from an activity common to the Business and any other business of the Licensee and, if not otherwise disclosed, the basis of the apportionment or attribution;
(c) procure in respect of each of those accounting statements prepared in respect of a complete financial year of the Licensee a report by the Licensee's auditor for the time being appointed in accordance with the Companies Act 1985 which shall conform to Auditing Standards and in which the auditor shall state whether in his opinion that statement is adequate for the purposes of this Condition; and
67.2
Accounting statements prepared under paragraph 67.1(b) in respect of each financial year shall, so far as reasonably practicable, be prepared in the formats and in accordance with the accounting principles and rules which apply to the annual accounts of the Licensee and shall state the accounting policies used.
(b) references to the costs of any business do not include profits of that business.
68.1 The Licensee shall on request by any public telecommunications operator, subject to the obligations in Condition 2 above, make available to such operator, for the purpose of enabling such operator to comply with such obligations, such directories which the Licensee compiles, in a form approved by the Director. 68.2 If, following a written representation by the Licensee that the market for provision of any of the items in paragraph 68.1 is competitive, the Director determines that such market is competitive in any specified area of the United Kingdom, the obligation upon the Licensee under paragraph 68.1 will cease to apply with respect to the provision of such item in respect of that specified area. 68.3 The Licensee shall supply the items in paragraph 68.1 above at the reasonable request of the person requesting such items. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Licensee may refuse to supply such items if the person requesting such items does not undertake to Process the data or information contained in them in accordance with any relevant Code of Practice, or the Licensee has reasonable grounds to believe that the person requesting such items will not comply with Relevant Data Protection Legislation. 68.4 Where the Licensee is requested to supply the items in paragraph 68.1 above, the Licensee shall do so on terms which are fair, cost oriented and not unduly discriminatory, and in a format which is agreed between the Licensee and the person requesting the information, or approved by the Director, where no such agreement is reached".
1. The Applicable Systems are telecommunication systems of every description within the Licensed Area provided that a system ("the System") is an Applicable System only to the extent that it satisfies each of the following conditions:
(ii) from a Network Termination Point to another place which is neither a Network Termination Point nor a Call Office or from such a place to such a Point; (iii) between a place which is neither a Network Termination Point nor a Call Office and another such place where their conveyance is not by way of provision of a service to another person; or (iv) between a Call Office and any other place;
but in any case not beyond a Network Termination Point;
2.
In this Annex:
(ii) the conveyance of Messages between such Apparatus and the Applicable Systems; and (iii) the due functioning of the Applicable Systems to be tested,
but the only other functions of which, if any, are:
(B) to protect the safety or security of the operation of the Applicable Systems; or (C) to enable other operations exclusively related to the running of the Applicable Systems to be performed or the due functioning of any system to which the Applicable Systems are or are to be connected to be tested (separately or together with the Applicable Systems);
(ii) within an item of Network Termination and Testing Apparatus at which such energy is conveyed directly to any Relevant Terminal Apparatus; (iii) which, in the case of a radio based telecommunication system, is the last point at which Messages are transmitted, or the first point at which Messages are received, in the form of electromagnetic signals, by apparatus run by a person other than the Licensee and lawfully connected to that System;
(ii) any other telecommunication apparatus connected to the apparatus referred to in sub-paragraph (i) above constituting a system run under a Licence by the person using that Terminal Apparatus; and
(This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the telecommunications licence granted to Kingston Communications (Hull) PLC under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 on 30 November 1987. The Schedules to the Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Standard Schedules) Regulations 1999 (S.I.1999/2450) replace the Schedules to the licence, subject to certain specific amendments. The licence is being amended as part of the implementation in the UK of Directive 97/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a common framework for general authorisations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications (OJ No. L199, 26.7.97, p.32), which requires that conditions in all telecommunications licences of a similar type should be harmonised, except where objectively justified in particular instances. A Regulatory Impact Assessment is available and can be obtained from Communications and Information Industries Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry, 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SS. The licence modified by these Regulations may be inspected at the Library of the Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL), 50 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JJ. Notes: [1] S.I. 1996/266.back [3] 1984 c. 12, as amended by the Telecommunications (Licensing) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2930). There are other amendments to 1984 c. 12 which are not relevant to these Regulations.back
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