{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-leased-lines-regulations-1993/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2330",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Leased Lines) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-leased-lines-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1972 Act” means the European Communities Act 1972;\n“the 1984 Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984;\n“the approvals register” means the register of approvals given and designations made under section 22 of the 1984 Act which the Director keeps pursuant to section 23 of that Act;\n“BT” means British Telecommunications plc;\n“the BT licence” means the licence granted by the Secretary of State under section 7 of the 1984 Act to British Telecommunications on 22nd June 1984 to run the telecommunication systems referred to in Annex A thereof, in relation to which BT became the licensee as the nominated successor company on the transfer date;\n“the Commission” means the Commission of the European Communities;\n“common ordering procedure” means an ordering procedure for the procurement of intra-Community private circuits which ensures that there is commonality across the telecommunications organizations in the information that has to be supplied by the user and the telecommunications organizations, and in the format in which the information is presented;\n“the Community” means the European Economic Community;\n“the Directive” means Council Directive 92/44/EEC on the application of open network provision to leased lines;\n“Hull” means Kingston upon Hull City Council and Kingston Communications (Hull) PLC;\n“the Hull licence” means the licence granted by the Secretary of State under section 7 of the 1984 Act to Hull on 30th November 1987 to run the telecommunication systems referred to in Annex A thereof;\n“Mercury” means Mercury Communications Limited;\n“the Mercury licence” means the licence granted by the Secretary of State under section 7 of the 1984 Act to Mercury on 5th November 1984 to run the telecommunication systems referred to in Annex A thereof;\n“one-stop-ordering” is a system whereby all transactions involving a user, required for the procurement of private circuits with network termination points in more than one member State, supplied by more than one telecommunications organization to a single user, can be completed at one location between the user and a single telecommunications organization;\n“one-stop-billing” is a system whereby the billing and payment transaction for private circuits with network termination points in more than one member State supplied by more than one telecommunications organization to a single user can be completed at one location between the user and a single telecommunications organization;\n“private circuit” means a telecommunications facility provided in the context of the establishment, development and operation of the public telecommunications network, which provides for transparent transmission capacity between network termination points where both or all such points are situated within the Community and which does not include on-demand switching (that is to say, switching functions which the user can control as part of the private circuit provision); and\n“users” means end users and service providers, including telecommunications organizations where the latter are engaged in providing services which are or may be provided also by others.\n(2) References in these Regulations to the BT licence, the Hull licence and the Mercury licence are references to such licences as modified from time to time pursuant to sections 12 and 15 of the 1984 Act and regulations made under section 2(2) of the 1972 Act.\n(3) Any word or expression used in these Regulations shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the same meaning as it has in the 1984 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The transfer date appointed under section 60 of 1984 c. 12 was 6th August 1984; S.I. 1984/876, article 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L165, 19.6.92, p. 27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2251",
      "affecting_title": "The Telecommunications (Leased Lines) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2251",
      "affecting_title": "The Telecommunications (Leased Lines) (Amendment) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2330/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:25.499736+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."
}