Article 8 Exercise of functions by an authorised person
(1)
Where any provision of the enactments listed in paragraph (3) authorises or requires anything to be done by OFCOM in connection with or for the purposes of a function which may also be exercised by an authorised person, each such enactment shall have effect in any case where that function is so exercised by that person as if a reference to OFCOM included a reference to the authorised person.
(2)
In the enactments listed in paragraph (3) any reference to a thing done by OFCOM shall have effect where it is done by an authorised person as though it included a reference to a thing done by that person.
(3)
The enactments are—
(a)
the 2003 Act;
(b)
the 1996 Act;
(c)
the 1990 Act;
(d)
the 1994 Regulations; and
(e)
the 1988 Regulations.