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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-31",
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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/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Discounts and other special tariff provisions—public operators",
  "text": "(1) 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, where a public operator is under a duty for its tariffs to follow the principles of cost orientation in accordance with regulation 27(1), discount schemes for its subscribers are fully transparent and are published and applied in accordance with the principle of non-discrimination.\n(2) The Director may by direction require that the discount schemes referred to in paragraph (1) above be modified or withdrawn.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1580/regulation/31",
    "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."
}