SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Minor and Consequential Amendments

Telecommunications Act 1984

67(1)Section 84 of that Act (approval of wireless telegraphy apparatus) shall be amended as follows.

(2)For the words “Secretary of State”, wherever occurring, except in subsection (9), there shall be substituted “relevant authority”.

(3)In subsection (5), for “him” there shall be substituted “the relevant authority”.

(4)In subsection (8) for “his” there shall be substituted “the relevant authority's”.

(5)After subsection (8) there shall be inserted—

(8A)Subject to subsection (8B), in this section “the relevant authority” means—

(a)in such cases as may be specified in an order made by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State; and

(b)in any other case, OFCOM.

(8B)Where an application for the purposes of this section is made to the Secretary of State or OFCOM and it appears to the person to whom it is made that it should have been made to the other—

(a)that person shall refer the application to the other; and

(b)the application shall be proceeded with as if made to the person to whom it is referred.