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Communications Act 2003

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39Supplemental provision about fixing charges
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(1)OFCOM’s power to fix a charge under section 38—

(a)is to be exercisable only by the publication or giving of such notification as they consider appropriate for bringing the charge to the attention of the persons who, in their opinion, are likely to be affected by it; and

(b)includes power, by setting it out in that notification, to fix the time at which the charge is to become due to OFCOM.

(2)A charge fixed under section 38 for a charging year may be fixed in terms providing for a deduction from the charge on a proportionate basis to be made for a part of the year during which—

(a)the network, service or facility in respect of which it is fixed is not provided or made available by the person otherwise liable to the charge;

(b)the universal service condition in respect of which it is fixed does not apply in that person’s case;

(c)the SMP apparatus condition in respect of which it is fixed does not apply in that person’s case; or

(d)the electronic communications code does not apply in that person’s case.

(3)Such a charge may also be fixed (subject to subsection (4)) so that it is referable, in whole or in part—

(a)to the provision or making available of a network, service or facility during a part of the year falling before the fixing of the charge;

(b)to the application of a universal service condition to a person for a part of the year so falling;

(c)to a person’s being a person to whom an SMP apparatus condition applies for a part of the year so falling; or

(d)to the application of the electronic communications code in a person’s case during a part of the year so falling.

(4)A charge may be fixed so as to be referable to a time before it is fixed to the extent only that both—

(a)the imposition of the charge, and

(b)the amount of the charge,

are required by, and consistent with, the statement of charging principles in force at the beginning of the charging year.

(5)Before making or revising a statement of charging principles, OFCOM must consult such of the persons who, in OFCOM’s opinion, are likely to be affected by those principles as they think fit.

(6)The way in which a statement of charging principles must be made or may be revised is by the publication of the statement or revised statement in such manner as OFCOM consider appropriate for bringing it to the attention of the persons who, in their opinion, are likely to be affected by it.

(7)References in this section to a statement of charging principles are references to a statement by OFCOM of the principles that they are proposing to apply in fixing charges under section 38 for a charging year.

(8)In this section “charging year” has the same meaning as in section 38.

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