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1(1)In any Act or instrument amended by this Schedule—U.K.

  • communications service” means any of the following services—

    (a)

    an electronic communications service;

    (b)

    the provision of directory information by means of an electronic communications network for the purpose of facilitating the use of an electronic communications service provided by means of that network;

    (c)

    the installation, maintenance, adjustment, repair, alteration, moving, removal or replacement of apparatus which is or is to be connected to an electronic communications network;

  • 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 this Act;

  • electronic communications code network” means—

    (a)

    so much of an electronic communications network or [F1infrastructure 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; and

    (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;

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

  • former PTO” means a person—

    (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 this Act of section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) comes into force, was designated as a public telecommunication system under section 9 of that Act; and

    (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—

    (a)

    the electronic communications code operator providing that network; or

    (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 this Act;

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

(2)In this paragraph—

F2(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)electronic communications code”, “electronic communications code network”, “electronic communications code operator”, “public electronic communications network” and “public electronic communications service” each has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (1).

[F3(c)“infrastructure system” has the same meaning as in the electronic communications code and references to providing an infrastructure system are to be construed in accordance with paragraph 7 of that code.]

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