55(1)Section 117 of the 1990 Act (procedure for awarding additional radio services licences) shall be amended as follows.
(2)For “the Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “OFCOM”.
(3)In subsection (1), for paragraph (a) (requirement of approval of technical plans) there shall be substituted—
“(a)that the technical plan submitted under section 116(3)(b), in so far as it involves the use of an electronic communications network (within the meaning of the Communications Act 2003), contains proposals that are acceptable to them; and”.
(4)Subsections (2) and (7) shall cease to have effect.