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Communications Act 2003

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68Tariffs etc. for universal services
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(1)It shall be the duty of OFCOM—

(a)to keep under review universal service tariffs; and

(b)to monitor changes to those tariffs.

(2)Universal service conditions may require one or more of the following—

(a)the use of a common tariff, or of common tariffs, in relation to anything mentioned in section 65(2);

(b)the use, in such cases as may be specified or described in the conditions, of such special tariffs in relation to anything so mentioned as may be so specified or described;

(c)the fixing of tariffs used in accordance with the conditions by the use of such methods, and by reference to such methods of computing costs, as may be so specified or described.

(3)Universal service conditions must secure that the terms on which a person is provided with anything required by the universal service order do not require him—

(a)to pay for an unnecessary additional service; or

(b)to pay, in respect of anything required by the order, any amount that is attributable to the provision to him of such a service.

(4)The references in subsection (3), in relation to a person, to an unnecessary additional service are references to anything the provision of which—

(a)he has to accept by reason of his being provided, at his request, with something required by the order (“the requested service”); and

(b)is not necessary for the purpose of providing him with the requested service.

(5)It shall be the duty of OFCOM, in setting a universal service condition about universal service tariffs, to have regard to anything ascertained by them in the performance of their duty under subsection (1).

(6)References in this section to a universal service tariff are references to any of the tariffs used by designated universal service providers in relation to the things for the time being required by the universal service order.

(7)References in this section to providing a person with anything include references to making it available or supplying it to him.

(8)In this section “tariff” includes a pricing structure.

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