Regulation 7 Exclusion in respect of certain contracts awarded by utilities operating in the telecommunications sector

These Regulations shall not apply to the seeking of offers in relation to a contract by a utility specified in Part T of Schedule 1 intended exclusively to enable it to provide one or more public telecommunications services where other entities are free to offer the same services in the same geographical area and under substantially the same conditions.

A utility when requested by the Commission shall notify it of any public telecommunica tions services provided by it which it considers are excluded by paragraph (1) above.

A utility may indicate that any of the information included in a report referred to in paragraph (2) above is of a sensitive commercial nature and require that it be not published.