# The Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999, Regulation 27: Supplementary provisions


(1) Where publicly available telecommunications services are used for the communication of material for direct marketing purposes–
(a) in a case in which an automated calling system within the meaning of regulation 22(1) is used or the material is communicated by means of facsimile transmission, the caller shall ensure that the material communicated includes the particulars mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) and (b) below;
(b) otherwise than as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), the caller shall ensure that the material communicated includes the particulars mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) below and, if the recipient of the call so requests, those mentioned in paragraph (2)(b) below.
(2) The particulars referred to in paragraph (1) are–
(a) the name of the caller;
(b) either the address of the caller or a freephone telephone number on which he can be reached.
(3) Where a person by whom numbers are allocated to subscribers is requested by or on behalf of the Director, for the purposes of his functions under regulation 23(4) or 25(4), to furnish information as to when a particular number ceases to be allocated to a particular subscriber, that person shall comply with the request.
(4) A caller shall not be held to have contravened regulation 23 or regulation 25 by reason of the making, or instigating the making, of a call and a subscriber shall not be held to have contravened regulation 23 or regulation 25 by permitting his line to be used for the making of a call, by reason only that the number of the called line is one listed in the record kept under paragraph (4) of the regulation in question, if that number was not so listed at any time within the 28 days preceding that on which the call is made.
(5) Subject to paragraph (6), the producer of a directory of subscribers shall ensure that it contains a statement drawing attention to the provisions of regulations 22, 23, 24, and 25.
(6) Nothing in paragraph (5) shall apply in relation to a directory of subscribers which is comprised in an edition first published before the coming into force of these Regulations; and, for the purposes hereof, an edition of a directory which is revised after it was first published shall be treated as a new edition.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2093/regulation/27 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-data-protection-and-privacy-regulations-1999/regulation-27
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