The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

• Citation: S.I. 2012/2970
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and shall come into force on 30th November 2012.

Section 2 Amendment of the Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012

(1) The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012 are amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 16 (Recording of spectrum holdings)—

(a) in paragraph (1) after the words “under regulations 6(1), 7(2), 7(3) or 8” insert “and the requirement in paragraph (5)”; and

(b) after paragraph (4) add the following paragraph—

(5) The requirement is that, when recording existing spectrum holdings, OFCOM shall not record any existing spectrum holdings which are authorisations which will expire before 2nd October 2015.

(3) In regulation 24 (The spectrum cap rule), in sub-paragraph (4)(b), after the words “under this award process” insert “other than rights of use that relate to 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lots or 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lots”.

(4) In Schedule 1 (Frequency lots), in Column (2) of Table 2 for “2550-2555 and 2570-2675” substitute “2550-2555 and 2670-2675”.