{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999/regulation-26.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/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Notifications for the purposes of regulation 23(4)(a) or 25(4)(a)",
  "text": "(1) Where any such person as is mentioned in paragraph (3) has in his possession such a notification as is mentioned in regulation 23(4)(a) or regulation 25(4)(a) (to whomsoever it is addressed) or a copy or record of such a notification–\n(a) he shall, without undue delay, transmit a copy of that notification or a copy of that record to the Director, and\n(b) subject to receipt by the Director of a copy of a notification or of a record thereof so transmitted, the notification in question shall be treated for the purposes of regulation 23(4)(a) or, as the case may be, regulation 25(4)(a) as if it had been given to the Director.\n(2) Where the Director has made arrangements in pursuance of paragraph (6) of regulation 23 or, as the case may be, paragraph (6) of regulation 25 for the discharge of functions under paragraph (4) of the regulation in question by some other person on his behalf, paragraph (1) of this regulation shall have effect, in relation to such a notification as is mentioned in paragraph (4)(a) of the regulation in question, as if for the reference to the Director in sub-paragraph (a) and the first reference to him in sub-paragraph (b) there were substituted references to that other person.\n(3) The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are–\n(a) a telecommunications service provider;\n(b) the producer of a directory of subscribers; and\n(c) where, in connection with the production of such a directory, information relating to a particular subscriber is supplied to the producer thereof by some other person, that other person.",
  "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/26",
    "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."
}