Part I AMENDMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY) (DIRECT MARKETING) REGULATIONS 1998

At the end of regulation 10 of the Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) (Direct Marketing) Regulations 1998^f1 (notifications for purposes of regulation 7(4)(a) or 9(4)(a) thereof) there shall be added the two following paragraphs:–

“(5)

Where the number, in respect of a particular line, allocated to a subscriber who is an individual was, immediately before 1st May 1999, included in the list of numbers mentioned in paragraph (6), then, for the purposes of regulation 9(4)(a), that subscriber shall, as respects that line, be deemed to have notified the Director as mentioned therein, and that notification may be withdrawn by him as though it were a notification actually given.

(6)

The list referred to in paragraph (5) is the list kept before 1st May 1999 by the Direct Marketing Association (UK) Ltd for the purposes of the extra-statutory scheme then operated by it which was known as “the Telephone Preference Scheme.”.”