{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-security-act-2021/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-security-act-2021/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/31",
  "legislation_title": "Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-security-act-2021",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "General duty of OFCOM to ensure compliance with security duties",
  "text": "After section 105L of the Communications Act 2003 insert—\nGeneral duty of OFCOM to ensure compliance with security duties\n105M OFCOM must seek to ensure that providers of public electronic communications networks and public electronic communications services comply with the duties imposed on them by or under sections 105A to 105D, 105J and 105K.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 1.10.2022 by S.I. 2022/931, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/31/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:58:52.903734+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}