{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-35.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "section/35",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Notification of contraventions of s. 33",
  "text": "(1) Where OFCOM determine that there are reasonable grounds for believing that a person has contravened section 33, 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 contravention in respect of which the determination has been made;\n(c) specifies the period during which the person notified has an opportunity to make representations;\n(d) specifies information to be provided by the person to OFCOM; and\n(e) specifies any penalty which OFCOM are minded to impose in accordance with section 35A.\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 of section 33; 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 section 33, OFCOM may give a further notification in respect of the same contravention if, and only if—\n(a) the subsequent notification is in respect of so much of a period during which the contravention in question was continuing as falls after a period to which the earlier notification relates; or\n(b) the earlier notification has been withdrawn without a penalty having been imposed by reference to the notified contravention.\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 35(2)(a) 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. 10(a) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 35(2)(b)-(e) substituted for s. 35(2)(b) (26.5.2011) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 10(a) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 35(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. 10(b) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 35(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. 10(b) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 35 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. 35 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/35",
    "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."
  }
}