SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 18Transitional Provisions

Applications for extension of pre-transfer licences

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1

Section 253(4)(a) does not prevent the determination by OFCOM of a day falling less than one year after the making of the determination where—

a

OFCOM consider that the day by which they would need to publish a notice is a day which is not more than 15 months after the commencement date; and

b

the determination of that day is made as soon as practicable after the commencement date.

2

Where the day determined by OFCOM for the purposes of paragraph (b) of section 253(3) is a day in the period of three months beginning with the day after the determination, that paragraph shall have effect as if for the words “three months before” there were substituted “ on ”.

3

In this paragraph, the “commencement date” is the date on which section 253 comes into force.