{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-british-telecommunications-plc-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-british-telecommunications-plc-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2453",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (British Telecommunications plc) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-british-telecommunications-plc-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) So far as anything done or treated as done under or for the purposes of any provision of the former licence could have been done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of the modified licence, it shall have effect as if done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision; and any direction, notice, consent, specification, designation or determination or other decision made or having effect under any provision of the former licence shall be treated for all purposes as made and having effect under the corresponding provision.\n(2) Where any period of time specified in a provision of the former licence is current immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, the corresponding provision of the modified licence shall have effect as if that period of time—\n(a) ran from the date or event from which it was running immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, and\n(b) expired whenever it would have expired if the former licence had not been modified;\nand any rights, liabilities, obligations or requirements dependent on the beginning, duration or end of such a period as mentioned above shall be under the modified licence as they were or would have been under the former licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2453/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:27.615551+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."
}