{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-interconnection-number-portability-etc-regulations-1999/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-interconnection-number-portability-etc-regulations-1999/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3449",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Interconnection) (Number Portability, etc.) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-interconnection-number-portability-etc-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Numbering",
  "text": "Regulation 11(1) of the principal Regulations is amended by substituting for sub-paragraph (1)(c) the following sub-paragraph—\n“(c) encourage the earliest possible introduction of operator number portability whereby subscribers who so request can retain their numbers on the fixed public telephone network and the ISDN independent of the organisation providing service, in the case of geographic numbers at a specific location and in the case of other than geographic numbers at any location.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3449/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:23:18.483569+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."
}