{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-apparatus-approval-test-fees-order-1990/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/889",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus (Approval) (Test Fees) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-apparatus-approval-test-fees-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order–\n“the Act” means the Telecommunications Act 1984;\n“apparatus” means wireless telegraphy apparatus or apparatus designed or adapted for use in connection with wireless telegraphy apparatus;\n“fixed service” means a radiocommunication service between one fixed point and one or more other fixed points other than a service consisting in the making of a broadcast of sounds or visual images intended for general reception;\n“Inner London” means the City of London, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple and the Inner London boroughs;\n“relevant apparatus” has the meaning given by article 5(1);\n“test” includes the analysis of test results and the compiling of a test report;\n“test officer” means a person engaged in testing on behalf of the Secretary of State; and\n“travelling time” means time reasonably spent in travel wholly undertaken for the purposes of a test wholly or partly conducted at a place other than the test officer’s workplace.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, “visit” means a continuous period of time during which a test officer is reasonably absent from either his usual place of residence or his workplace for the purposes of conducting a test, including time spent in conducting the test, travelling time, any period in which overnight accommodation (including a berth in a boat or train) is reasonably occupied (an “overnight stay”) and any other rest periods reasonably taken whilst so absent.\n(3) In calculating a test officer’s subsistence costs, a visit shall be divided into periods of time in the following order:–\n(a) each complete period of 24 hours (a “24 hour period”);\n(b) any–\n(i) single period of less than 24 hours; or\n(ii) period of less than 24 hours remaining after any 24 hour periods have been taken into account,\nwhich includes an overnight stay (an “overnight period”);\n(c) where–\n(i) the visit does not involve an overnight stay; or\n(ii) the visit involves one or more 24 hour periods, but no overnight period is counted,\nany period of–\n(aa) 10 hours or more but less than 24 hours (a “day period”); or\n(bb) 5 hours or more but less than 10 hours (a “half day period”); and\n(d) any remaining period of less than 5 hours, which shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/889/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:21:22.168896+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."
}