Regulation 26 Register to be kept for the purposes of regulation 21

For the purposes of regulation 21 F1the F2Commission shall maintain and keep up-to-date, in printed or electronic form, a register of the numbers allocated to F3... subscribers, in respect of particular lines, who have notified F4the Commission or, prior to 30thDecember 2016, OFCOM that they do not for the time being wish to receive unsolicited calls for direct marketing purposes on the lines in question.

Notifications to the Commission made for the purposes of paragraph (1) by corporate subscribers shall be in writing.

The Commission shall remove a number from the register maintained under paragraph (1) where F6the Commission has reason to believe that it has ceased to be allocated to the subscriber by whom F7the Commission was or, prior to 30th December 2016, OFCOM were notified pursuant to paragraph (1).

Where a number allocated to a corporate subscriber is listed in the register maintained under paragraph (1), the Commission shall, within the period of 28 days following each anniversary of the date of that number being first listed in the register, send to the subscriber a written reminder that the number is listed in the register.

On the request of—

for information derived from the register kept under paragraph (1), the Commission shall, unless it is not reasonably practicable so to do, on the payment to F9the Commission of such fee as is, subject to paragraph (4), required by the Commission, make the information requested available to that person or that subscriber.

For the purposes of paragraph (3) the Commission may require different fees—

but the fees required by the Commission shall be ones in relation to which the Secretary of State has notified the Commission that he is satisfied that they are designed to secure, as nearly as may be and taking one year with another, that the aggregate fees received, or reasonably expected to be received, equal the costs incurred, or reasonably expected to be incurred, by the Commission in discharging F10the Commission’s duties under paragraphs (1), (2) and (3).

The functions of the Commission under paragraphs (1), (2) F11, (2A) and (3), other than the function of determining the fees to be required for the purposes of paragraph (3), may be discharged on the Commission’s behalf by some other person in pursuance of arrangements made by the Commission with that other person.