{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-universal-service-costs-regulations-2020/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-universal-service-costs-regulations-2020/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Costs) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-universal-service-costs-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Calculating the amount to be collected",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) OFCOM have determined, under section 71(2) of the Act, that it is or would be unfair for the universal service provider to bear, or continue to bear, the whole or part of the financial burden of complying with the relevant universal service conditions;\n(b) the universal service provider has made an application under regulation 6 which meets the requirements set out in that regulation; and\n(c) regulation 7(3) does not apply,\nOFCOM must determine the amount to be collected for meeting the unfair financial burden of complying with the relevant universal service conditions.\n(2) The amount to be collected, in pounds sterling, must be calculated by deducting from the amount to be compensated—\n(a) any part of the amount to be compensated which has been compensated from public funds; and\n(b) any part of the amount to be compensated which the universal service provider has waived its entitlement to under regulation 16.\n(3) Where it appears to OFCOM that public funds are to be committed to compensating the whole or part of the financial burden of complying with one or more of the relevant universal service conditions, OFCOM must postpone the determination of the amount to be collected until such time as the part of the amount to be compensated from central funds is known.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2)(a) substituted (24.12.2021) by The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1377), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(3) substituted (24.12.2021) by The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1377), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 15.6.2020, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/545/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:59.988031+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."
}