{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-access-to-infrastructure-regulations-2016/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-access-to-infrastructure-regulations-2016/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/700",
  "legislation_title": "The Communications (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-access-to-infrastructure-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Access to in-building physical infrastructure",
  "text": "(1) A network provider may make a request to a rights holder for access to the rights holder's access point or in-building physical infrastructure provided the request—\n(a) is in writing;\n(b) specifies the location to which the request relates; and\n(c) is made with a view to deploying elements of a high-speed electronic communications network using that access point or infrastructure.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) and regulation 10(1) (national security), the rights holder must, within a period of two months beginning with the date of receipt of the request, agree to provide access on fair and non-discriminatory terms.\n(3) A rights holder may refuse to provide access if, or to the extent—\n(a) it would be technically possible and economically efficient for the network provider to install additional in-building physical infrastructure; or\n(b) the request cannot reasonably be met.\n(4) If the rights holder refuses to any extent a request, it must, within the time for complying with paragraph (2), give the network provider a notice which—\n(a) indicates that the request has been refused or sets out the extent of the refusal; and\n(b) provides the grounds for refusing and the reasons those grounds apply (but regulation 10(8) applies to the extent the refusal is on national security grounds).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/700/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:18.970648+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}