Article 53 Requirement for network operators to retain relevant payments

This article applies where a network operator is liable to make relevant payments to another PRS provider (“P”).

The network operator must not make relevant payments to P for at least 30 calendar days beginning with the day on which the controlled PRS was used by the consumer.

The requirement in paragraph (2) does not apply to relevant payments relating to a society lottery service.

In this article—

• “relevant payments” mean any payments owed by the network operator to P relating to, or connected with, the provision of a controlled PRS used by a consumer of an electronic communications service by means of which the controlled PRS is provided;

• “society lottery service” means a threshold service solely making available a facility for entering a lottery (within the meaning of section 14 of the 2005 Act)—

  1. (a)

     operated by a non-commercial society (within the meaning of section 19 of the 2005 Act^f1), or

  2. (b)

     operated for the benefit of such a non-commercial society.