{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-universal-service-order-2003/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-universal-service-order-2003/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1904",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-communications-universal-service-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Communications Act 2003;\n“disability” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 ;\n...\n“publicly available telephone service” means a service made available to the public for originating and receiving directly or indirectly national or national and international calls and access to emergency services through a telephone number or numbers in a national or international telephone numbering plan;\n“public pay telephone” means a telephone available to the general public, for the use of which the means of payment may include one or more of the following:\n(a)coins;\n(b)credit or debit cards; and\n(c)pre-payment cards, including cards for use with dialling codes;\n...\n“relay service” means a service which:\n(a)provides facilities for the receipt and translation of voice messages into text and text into voice messages, and the conveyance of that text or voice message to the textphone of subscribers of a person providing a publicly available telephone service; and\n(b)has been approved as a text relay service by OFCOM;\n“subscriber” means any person who is a party to a contract with the provider of a public electronic communications service for the supply of such service; and\n“textphone” means an integrated terminal incorporating an alphanumeric keyboard and means of displaying text, intended for connection to the public telephone network for the sole or primary purpose of supporting live telephone conversations between two or more individuals.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (26.5.2011) by virtue of The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1209), arts. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 substituted (1.10.2022) by The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/937), arts. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (26.5.2011) by virtue of The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1209), arts. 1(1), 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1995 c. 50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1904/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:14:37.082341+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."
}