The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

• Citation: S.I. 2016/486
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and shall come into force on 28th April 2016.

Section 2 Amendment of the Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 2003

The Wireless Telegraphy (Exemption) Regulations 2003 (the “principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with the following Regulations.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 3

In regulation 3(1) of the principal Regulations, insert the following definition between the definitions of “apparatus” and “eirp”—

“body” means a body corporate or an unincorporated association;

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 4

(1) For regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations substitute—

(2) With the exception of—

(a) relevant apparatus operating in the frequency bands specified in paragraph (3); and

(b) the situation set out in paragraph (5),

the exemption in paragraph (1) shall not apply to relevant apparatus which is established, installed or used to provide or to be capable of providing a wireless telegraphy link between electronic communications apparatus or an electronic communications network and other such apparatus or system by means of which an electronic communications service is provided by way of business to another person

(2) After regulation 4(4) of the principal Regulations, insert the following paragraph—

(5) The situation mentioned in paragraph (2) is a situation where relevant apparatus is established, installed or used to provide an electronic communications service by way of business to more than one person within a single body.