The Advanced Television Services Regulations 1996

Certain systems to be treated as telecommunication systems

1.  For the purposes of sections 3 to 7, 12 to 19 and Part III of the 1984 Act–

(a)a conditional access system used for the purposes of providing subscriber management services shall to the extent which it is so used be treated as a telecommunication system even though it would not be so treated apart from this paragraph (in this paragraph referred to as a“deemed system”);

(b)subscriber management services provided by means of a deemed system shall be treated as telecommunication services.