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THE ACT, DATE OF CREATION ON MILES
Electronic Communications Act 2000
c. 7
15
Part III
(b) the modification would remove or reduce the
burden without removing any necessary
protection;
(c) the modification is such that no person holding a
licence granted under section 7 above to a
particular
person
would
be
unduly
disadvantaged by the modification in
competing with the holder of the licence in
which those conditions are included.”
(5) In section 12 of that Act—
(a) in subsection (2), the words after paragraph (c) (duty to consider
representations and objections) shall be omitted; and
(b) in subsection (7) (references to modification not to include
modifications relating to the telecommunications code), for
“sections 13 to 15” there shall be substituted “sections 12A to
15”.
12. In subsection (1) of section 46B of the Telecommunications Act
1984 (appeals against decisions of the Secretary of State or the Director),
after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted—
“(da) a decision with regard to the modification under section
12 of a condition of a licence granted under section 7 above
to a particular person;”.
Appeals against
modifications of
licence conditions.
1984 c. 12.
Supplemental
Ministerial
13. There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—
expenditure etc.
(a) any expenditure incurred by the Secretary of State for or in
connection with the carrying out of his functions under this
Act; and
(b) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums which are
payable out of money so provided under any other Act.
14.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), nothing in this Act shall confer any Prohibition on key
power on any Minister of the Crown, on the Scottish Ministers, on the escrow
National Assembly for Wales or on any person appointed under requirements.
section 3—
(a) by conditions of an approval under Part I, or
(b) by any regulations or order under this Act,
to impose a requirement on any person to deposit a key for electronic data
with another person.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not prohibit the imposition by an order under
section 8 of—
(a) a requirement to deposit a key for electronic data with the
intended recipient of electronic communications comprising the
data; or
(b) a requirement for arrangements to be made, in cases where a key
for data is not deposited with another person, which otherwise
secure that the loss of a key, or its becoming unusable, does not
have the effect that the information contained in a record kept