{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-16/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-16/paragraph-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 121 of that Act (fees) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) after the words “the OFT”, where they occur for the second time, there shall be inserted “ , OFCOM ”; and\n(b) the words “, Part V of the Fair Trading Act 1973 (c. 41)” shall cease to have effect.\n(3) In subsection (2)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the word “ or ”; and\n(b) paragraph (b), and the word “or” at the end of the paragraph, shall cease to have effect.\n(4) In subsection (4)(c)—\n(a) sub-paragraph (i);\n(b) the word “and” at the end of the sub-paragraph; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (ii), the words “in any other case,”;\nshall cease to have effect.\n(5) In subsection (8)—\n(a) after the words “the OFT”, where they occur for the second time, there shall be inserted “ , OFCOM ”; and\n(b) the words “, Part V of the Act of 1973” shall cease to have effect.\n(6) Subsection (10) shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 23 in force at 29.12.2003 by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/schedule/16/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:16.154105+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."
}