Oftel

Notification under section 108(4) of the Communications Act 2003 published on 10th October 2003

Availability of Register under section 108 of the Act

1.	The Director, in accordance with section 108(4) of the Act, hereby sets out the times at which the register is for the time being available for public inspection, and the fees that must be paid for, or in connection with, an inspection of the register.

Public inspection of the register

2.	The register shall be open to public inspection­–
(a)	between the hours of 10.00 am and 4.00 am on all days except:­
(i)	Saturdays
(ii)	Sundays;
(iii)	Christmas Day;
(iv)	Maundy Thursday;
(v)	Good Friday;
(vi)	bank holidays; and
(vii)	the Friday before the last Monday in May, and
(b)	between the hours of 10.00 am and 12.00 noon on Maundy Thursday.

    Fees payable for, or in connection with, an inspection of the register

3.	No fee shall be payable for, or in connection with, an inspection of the register.
4.	However, a fee shall be payable for supplying a copy of or extract from any part of the register, certified by the Director to be a true copy or extract. This fee shall be­–
(a)	£1 where the copy does not exceed ten pages, or for the first ten pages of a copy which exceeds ten pages; and
(b)	10 pence for every page of a copy after the tenth page.

Availability of the register in electronic form

5.	The register shall be available and can be viewed in the Industry Information section of Oftel’s web site (www.oftel.gov.uk), under classification General Authorisation Regime.
In this notification:

‘Act’ means the Communications Act 2003;

‘bank holiday’ means any day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971;

‘Director’ means the Director General of Telecommunications as appointed under section 1 of the Telecommunications Act 1984;

‘Electronic Communications Code’ has the same meaning as in section 106(1) of the Act;

‘register’ means the register of persons in whose case the Electronic Communications Code applies by virtue of a direction under section 106 of the Act which is established and maintained by the Director under section 108 of the Act.

This notification shall come into force on the day it is published.

  Neil Buckley, Policy Project Director.

A person authorised under Paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications Act 1984.

Dated: 6th October 2003.