{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-and-leased-lines-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-and-leased-lines-regulations-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2932",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Open Network Provision and Leased Lines) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-and-leased-lines-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Functions of the Director and the Secretary of State",
  "text": "The Secretary of State and the Director shall exercise their powers and carry out their functions under sections 7 and 12 to 15 inclusive of the 1984 Act, these Regulations and the Leased Lines Directive Conditions so as to ensure—\n(a) that, subject to paragraph (d) of this regulation and to regulation 7 of these Regulations, at every point in the United Kingdom in respect of every relevant private circuit market the Leased Lines Directive Conditions apply to at least one holder of a Relevant Licence;\n(b) that the Leased Lines Directive Conditions are not applied in respect of a relevant private circuit market to an organisation not having significant market power in that market unless there is no organisation having significant market power in that market;\n(c) that the minimum set of private circuits with harmonised technical characteristics specified in Schedule 3 to these Regulations is provided throughout the United Kingdom; and\n(d) that Condition LLD9 of the Leased Lines Directive Conditions (tariffing principles and cost accounting) does not apply where no holder of a Relevant Licence is an organisation having significant market power in respect of a specific private circuit offering in a specific geographical area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2932/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:41:05.844873+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."
}