{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1580",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Open Network Provision) (Voice Telephony) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Provision of additional facilities—public operators",
  "text": "In exercising their functions under Part II and sections 47 to 49 of the Act, the Secretary of State and the Director shall ensure that:\n(a) public operators providing voice telephony services being operators having significant market power provide, subject to technical feasibility and economic viability, the facilities listed in Part 2 of Schedule I;\n(b) where public operators provide the facilities described in paragraphs (a) and (c) of Part 2 of Schedule I and paragraphs (d) and (f) of Part 3 of Schedule I, they do so in accordance with relevant data protection legislation;\n(c) public operators providing voice telephony services which do not yet offer the facility of number portability on request to a subscriber, shall provide to that subscriber a facility on request for a reasonable period after that subscriber has changed to a different supplier either:\n(i) to re-route telephone calls to his new number for a reasonable fee; or\n(ii) to advise callers of the new number without charging the called party for this service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1580/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:31.570720+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."
}