{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-mobile-public-telecommunication-operators-regulations-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-mobile-public-telecommunication-operators-regulations-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2452",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Licence Modification) (Mobile Public Telecommunication Operators) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-licence-modification-mobile-public-telecommunication-operators-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 licences could have been done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of the modified licences, it shall have effect as if done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision; and any direction, notice, consent, specification, designation, determination or other decision made or having effect under any provision of the former licences 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 licences is current immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, the corresponding provision of the modified licences 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 licences 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 licences as they were or would have been under the former licences.\n(3) Notwithstanding the modification of the relevant licences by these Regulations, and subject to regulation 4(4) below, where immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations BT Cellnet and Vodafone were required under provisions in the BT Cellnet Licence and the Vodafone Licence respectively to provide Mobile Radio Telecommunication Services to a Service Provider or to a person intending to be a Service Provider, BT Cellnet and Vodafone shall each continue to supply such services in accordance with the said provisions as if the said provisions continued to apply.\n(4) The obligation in regulation 4(3) above shall continue until either—\n(a) the Director makes a determination in accordance with Part F of the BT Cellnet Licence and the Vodafone Licence respectively; or\n(b) 31st March 2000,\nwhichever shall first occur.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2452/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:28.832953+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."
}