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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "EEA Agreement",
  "text": "Consequent upon the extension of the Voice Telephony Directive to the EEA by decision No 25/98 of the EEA Joint Committee which came into force on 1 April 1998, Regulations 1 to 3 and 9 of the 1997 Regulations and Voice Telephony Conditions VTD1, VTD8, VTD9 and VTD10 in Schedule 1 to those Regulations are hereby extended to have effect in respect of Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement and in Regulation 9 and the Voice Telephony Conditions the words “member State” shall be interpreted as meaning a Contracting Party to that Agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Contracting Parties to the EEA Agreement are, in addition, to the European Community and the individual EC Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1580/regulation/3",
    "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."
}