{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2093",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Prevention of calling or connected line identification—incoming calls",
  "text": "(1) This regulation relates to incoming calls on a line.\n(2) Where presentation on the connected line of the identity of the calling line is available, the relevant telecommunications service provider shall ensure that the called subscriber has a simple means to prevent, without charge for reasonable use of the facility, presentation of the identity of a calling line on the connected line.\n(3) Where presentation on the calling line of the identity of the connected line is available, the relevant telecommunications service provider shall ensure that a called subscriber has a simple means to prevent, without charge, presentation of the identity of the connected line on any calling line.\n(4) Where presentation on the connected line of the identity of the calling line, before the establishment of a call, is available, the relevant telecommunications service provider shall ensure that the called subscriber has, as respects all or particular calls in the case of which such presentation has been prevented as mentioned in regulation 11(2) or (3), a simple means to reject the calls in question.\n(5) In this regulation “called subscriber” means the subscriber whose line is the called line (whether or not it is also the connected line).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2093/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:43.005246+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."
}