Paragraph 1 Certain systems to be treated as telecommunication systems
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.