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The Telecommunications (Services for Disabled Persons) Regulations 2000

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Modification of licences to include the Services for Disabled Persons condition

4.—(1) In the Table of Contents of the fixed voice telephony and international facilities operator licences, the cable and local delivery operator licences and the mobile licences, for the words “25. Supply and Connection of Apparatus for Disabled People” there shall be substituted the words “25. Services for Disabled Persons”.

(2) The BT Licence shall be modified as follows:

(a)in the Table of Contents, for the words “25. Supply and Connection of Apparatus for Disabled People” there shall be substituted the words “25. Services for Disabled Persons”;

(b)in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1—

(i)in the definition of “Directory Information Service” there shall be inserted after “Conditions 2” the number “, 25”;

(ii)the definition of “Fault Repair Service” shall be deleted;

(c)in Condition 68, paragraphs 3 and 5 shall be deleted and paragraphs 4, 6 and 7 shall be renumbered 3, 4 and 5 respectively; and

(d)in the renumbered paragraph 5 of Condition 68, for the definition of “textphone” there shall be substituted the following:

““textphone” means an integrated terminal incorporating an alphanumeric keyboard and a means of displaying text, intended for connection to the public switched telephone network for the sole or primary purpose of supporting live telephone conversations between two or more users.”

(3) The Kingston Licence shall be modified as follows:

(a)in the Table of Contents, for the words “25. Supply and Connection of Apparatus for Disabled People” there shall be substituted the words “25. Services for Disabled Persons”;

(b)in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1, the definition of “Fault Repair Service” shall be deleted; and

(c)in Condition 25 (as substituted by virtue of regulation 3(c) above), for paragraph 13(b) there shall be substituted the following:

“not later than 2nd October 2002, ensure that at least 50% of its Public Call Boxes are accessible by reasonable means to users in wheelchairs;”.

(4) The payphone operator licences shall be modified as follows:

(a)in the Table of Contents, for the words “10. Supply and Connection of Apparatus for Disabled People” there shall be substituted the words “10. Services for Disabled Persons”; and

(b)for Condition 10 there shall be substituted the Condition set out in Schedule 2 hereto.

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