1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Communications (Isle of Man) Order 2003.

(2)

Articles 1 to 5 and Schedule 1 shall come into force on 29th December 2003 and shall be deemed to have come into force immediately following the Broadcasting (Isle of Man) Order 20035.

(3)

Article 6 and Schedule 2 shall come into effect as provided in paragraph (4).

(4)

In respect of any provision of the 2003 Act that is extended to the Isle of Man (whether with or without modifications) by this Order and that is to any extent brought into force in the United Kingdom on a date specified in the Communications Act 2003 (Commencement No. 1) Order 20036 (“the No. 1 Order”) or the Office of Communications Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3) and Communications Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2003 (“the No. 2 Order”)7—

(a)

any provision of the 2003 Act so extended, and any modification to that provision made by this Order, shall be of no effect in or in relation to the Isle of Man in relation to any time before the date specified in the No. 1 Order or (as the case may be) the No. 2 Order as the date on which that provision is to come into force in the United Kingdom;

(b)

where any provision of the 2003 Act so extended is brought into force in the United Kingdom for certain purposes or to a certain extent, as specified in the No. 1 Order or (as the case may be) No. 2 Order, that provision, and any modification to that provision made by this Order, shall have effect in the Isle of Man only for the purposes or to the extent so specified;

(c)

any provision of the 2003 Act so extended, and any such modification, shall have effect in the Isle of Man subject to any transitional or transitory provision made in the No. 1 Order or (as the case may be) No. 2 Order in relation to that provision.