{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-no-2-regulations-2007/regulation-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-no-2-regulations-2007/regulation-71.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3380",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) (No. 2) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-no-2-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/71",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Rerunning rounds",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a round is in progress and OFCOM determine that it is not possible to continue the round because of technical failure (or an event or circumstance with similar effect on the continuation of the round).\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, OFCOM shall—\n(a) take all reasonable steps to notify bidders of its determination under paragraph (1);\n(b) disregard the bids made in that round;\n(c) resume the award procedure from the end of the previous round (or, if there was no previous round, from the start of the first primary bid round).\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where OFCOM determine that it is not possible to continue the award process in accordance with the provisions of Part 5 of these Regulations because of technical failure (or an event or circumstance with similar effect on the continuation of the award process).\n(4) Where this paragraph applies, OFCOM shall—\n(a) determine the rounds for which bids made in those rounds should be disregarded in order to have a fair and efficient outcome of the award process;\n(b) take all reasonable steps to notify bidders of its determinations under paragraph (3) and sub-paragraph (a);\n(c) resume the award process from the end of the latest round for which bids are not disregarded under sub-paragraph (a) or, where all bids are to be disregarded under that sub-paragraph, to rerun the award process from the start of the first primary bid round.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3380/regulation/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:40:32.715243+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."
}