{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-110",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-110.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "section/110",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "110",
  "heading": "Enforcement of restrictions and conditions",
  "text": "(1) Where OFCOM determine that there are reasonable grounds for believing that a person in whose case the electronic communications code applies is contravening, or has contravened, a requirement imposed by virtue of any restrictions or conditions under section 109, they may give him a notification under this section.\n(2) A notification under this section is one which—\n(a) sets out the determination made by OFCOM;\n(b) specifies the requirement and the contravention in respect of which that determination has been made; ...\n(c) specifies the period during which the person notified has an opportunity to make representations;\n(d) specifies the steps that OFCOM think should be taken by the person in order to—\n(i) comply with the requirement;\n(ii) remedy the consequences of the contravention;\n(e) specifies any penalty which OFCOM are minded to impose in accordance with section 110A; and\n(f) where the contravention is serious, specifies any direction which OFCOM are minded to give under section 113(4).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) A notification under this section—\n(a) may be given in respect of more than one contravention; and\n(b) if it is given in respect of a continuing contravention, may be given in respect of any period during which the contravention has continued.\n(9) Where a notification under this section has been given to a person in respect of a contravention of a requirement, OFCOM may give a further notification in respect of the same contravention of that requirement if, and only if—\n(a) the contravention is one occurring after the time of the giving of the earlier notification;\n(b) the contravention is a continuing contravention and the subsequent notification is in respect of so much of a period as falls after a period to which the earlier notification relates; or\n(c) the earlier notification has been withdrawn without a penalty having been imposed in respect of the notified contravention.\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 110(2)(b) omitted (26.5.2011) by virtue of The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 68(a) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 110(2)(c)-(f) substituted for s. 110(2)(c) (26.5.2011) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 68(b) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 110(3)-(7) omitted (26.5.2011) by virtue of The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 68(c) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 110(10) omitted (26.5.2011) by virtue of The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 68(c) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 106-119 modified (coming into force in accordance with reg. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Electronic Communications Code (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1008), reg. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 110 in force at 25.7.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 110 in force at 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/110",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:16.154105+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}