{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "General power to charge for services",
  "text": "(1) OFCOM may provide a service to which this section applies to any person on such terms as to the making of payments to OFCOM—\n(a) as they may determine in advance; or\n(b) as may be agreed between that person and OFCOM.\n(2) This section applies to a service which is provided by OFCOM to a person in the course of carrying out their functions and is neither—\n(a) a service which OFCOM are under a duty to provide to that person; nor\n(b) one in respect of which express provision is made by or under an enactment for authorising or forbidding the payment of fees or charges.\n(3) In this section references to providing a service to a person include references to a service consisting in—\n(a) the giving of advice to that person;\n(b) the entry of his particulars in a register or other record kept by OFCOM otherwise than in pursuance of an express statutory duty to keep the register or record; or\n(c) the taking of steps for the purposes of determining whether to grant an application for an entry in a register or record so kept.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 in force at 18.9.2003 by S.I. 2003/1900, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/28",
    "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."
  }
}