{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-no-2-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-no-2-regulations-2016/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1177",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-no-2-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003",
  "text": "(1) The 2003 Regulations are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulations 25 and 26—\n(a) for “OFCOM”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “the Commissioner”;\n(b) in paragraph (1) for “them” substitute “the Commissioner or, prior to 30th December 2016, OFCOM”;\n(c) in paragraph (2) for “they have” substitute “the Commissioner has”;\n(d) in paragraph (2) for “they were” substitute “the Commissioner was or, prior to 30th December 2016, OFCOM were”;\n(e) in paragraphs (3) and (4) for “them” substitute “the Commissioner”;\n(f) in paragraphs (4) and (5) for “their”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “the Commissioner’s”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1177/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:17:28.739770+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."
}