# The Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (British Telecommunications plc) Regulations 1999, Paragraph 2


After paragraph 6 of Part 1 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—
“7 For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that for the purposes of this Schedule references to the supply of telecommunication apparatus do not include the making available of apparatus comprised or to be comprised in any of the Applicable Systems.
8 Nothing which the Licensee may do, or omit to do, after the date on which any provision of these Conditions enters into force shall be held to constitute a failure to comply with an obligation imposed on the Licensee by or under these Conditions to the extent that the Licensee is obliged to do or to omit to do (as the case may be) that thing by the terms of any contract subsisting immediately before that date; but any contract which takes effect as from the appointed day by virtue of paragraph 12 of Schedule 5 to the Act shall not be treated for the purposes of these Conditions as a contract subsisting immediately before the date on which these Conditions enter into force.
9 Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 8 above, nothing which the Licensee may do, or omit to do after 1st May 1987 shall be held to constitute a failure to comply with an obligation imposed on the Licensee by virtue of any of the amendments made to these Conditions on that date to the extent that the Licensee is obliged to do or to omit to do (as the case may be) that thing by the terms of any contract subsisting immediately before 14th November 1986.”;

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2453/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-british-telecommunications-plc-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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