{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-broadband-fixed-wireless-access-licences-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-broadband-fixed-wireless-access-licences-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3193",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Licences) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-broadband-fixed-wireless-access-licences-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Notice",
  "text": "(1) Applications for the grant of the licences shall only be made in accordance with a procedure which is set out in a notice issued by the Secretary of State under these Regulations.\n(2) A notice issued pursuant to paragraph (1) above shall—\n(a) invite any body corporate to make an application to the Secretary of State to bid for a licence, in accordance with a specified procedure;\n(b) specify criteria by which the Secretary of State shall determine whether an applicant is qualified to participate in a bidding procedure;\n(c) specify criteria to determine whether a qualified applicant is associated with one or more other qualified applicants or with any person holding a wireless telegraphy licence awarded pursuant to the procedure provided for in the Wireless Telegraphy (Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Licences) Regulations 2000;\n(d) specify criteria to determine whether any qualified applicants who fall within sub-paragraph (c) above shall be entitled to participate in the procedure referred to in sub-paragraph (e) below;\n(e) specify a procedure by which qualified applicants may submit bids for licences;\n(f) specify reserve prices for each of the licences;\n(g) provide for the Secretary of State to determine minimum bids for each of the licences during the bidding procedure referred to in sub-paragraph (e) above;\n(h) provide for payment of a deposit on submission of an application;\n(i) provide for the payment of interest on the deposit;\n(j) provide for the circumstances in which all, or part, of any deposit, and all, or part, of any interest which accrues to a deposit, is not to be refunded;\n(k) specify the conditions which must be satisfied before a licence may be issued to a qualified applicant who submits the highest valid bid for a licence;\n(l) provide for a qualified applicant who submits the highest valid bid for a licence to elect whether he wishes to pay such sum—\n(i) as a single cash sum on issue of the licence; or\n(ii) as one half of such sum on issue of the licence with the balance payable as periodic sums calculated in accordance with a specified formula;\n(m) specify a guarantee which a qualified applicant who elects to pay the licence fee other than as a single cash sum is to provide to the Secretary of State on issue of the licence;\n(n) provide for the other terms, provisions and limitations subject to which each of the licences is to be issued; and\n(o) provide for the other conditions with which qualified applicants must comply to participate, or continue to participate, in the procedures referred to in sub-paragraph (e) above.\n(3) A notice which is issued pursuant to paragraph (1) above shall be published by the Secretary of State on the Radiocommunications Agency’s Internet Website.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2039."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3193/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:46.661531+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."
}