Introductory text

Whereas certain licences granted under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984^f1 ( “the Act ”) include provisions framed by reference to apparatus for the time being approved under section 22 of the Act for connection to telecommunication systems to which the licences relate:

Whereas, then, for the purposes of those provisions, apparatus may be approved for connection to those systems under the said section 22 by the Secretary of State:

Whereas the functions conferred on the Secretary of State by subsections (1), (2), (3), (4) and (10) (in so far as they relate to the approval of apparatus) of the said section 22 are, pursuant to an appointment^f2 for that purpose under section 25 of the Act, exercisable by the British Approvals Board for Telecommunications ( “BABT ”) to the extent and subject to the conditions specified in the appointment:

And whereas that appointment authorises BABT to retain any fees received by it: