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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/378",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2007",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations set out the procedure that will apply to the grant of wireless telegraphy licences at the frequency band 1785 megahertz to 1805 megahertz in Northern Ireland.\nOne licence will be granted in accordance with the procedure set out in these Regulations.\nTo apply a body corporate must deliver the documents required by regulation 4(3) to the Office of Communications (“OFCOM”) in either London or Belfast on a day specified by OFCOM on their internet website. Information is required about applicants’ bidder groups, a term defined in regulation 2(g). An initial deposit of twenty five thousand pounds must also be paid to OFCOM (regulation 4(3)(b)).\nRegulation 5 provides for a procedure under which overlaps between applicants’ bidder groups can be drawn to the attention of the applicants and time is allowed for applicants to notify OFCOM of any changes to bidder groups which have the effect that such overlaps are removed. An applicant will not be qualified to bid where a member of its bidder group is also a member of another bidder group (regulation 7(2)).\nOFCOM will determine which applicants are qualified to bid in the auction, taking into account the matters set out in regulation 7(3). Under regulation 8, OFCOM will publish the identity of all applicants qualified to bid on their internet website.\nOFCOM will follow the procedure in Part 4 of these Regulations where there is only one bidder, or the procedure in Part 5 of these Regulations where there is more than one bidder.\nUnder Part 4, where there is only one bidder the licence fee will be fifty thousand pounds and Ofcom will send the bidder a notice stating the day by which it must transfer to Ofcom the balance of the licence fee. If the bidder does not pay the licence fee by the required time, the bidder will not be granted a licence and will forfeit sums on deposit held by OFCOM (regulation 11(4)).\nUnder Part 5, where the number of bidders is more than one, OFCOM will give each bidder a notice, setting out the delivery period within which completed bid documentation must be provided to OFCOM (regulation 14). The bid documentation must be completed in accordance with regulations 15 and 16 and sealed bids submitted in accordance with regulation 17. Bidders must also pay to OFCOM a further deposit (regulation 18).\nOFCOM will determine the winning bid and the identity of the winning bidder under Part 5 by following the procedure set out in regulation 23. OFCOM will then grant the winning bidder the licence and refund the winning bidder the appropriate sum due under regulation 24(1)(b).\nIf in relation to an applicant who is qualified to bid or a bidder, OFCOM are satisfied that certain events are occurring or have occurred and the occurrence would materially affect the outcome of the award process the applicant or bidder concerned will forfeit sums on deposit and may be excluded from the award process (regulation 26).\nA full regulatory impact assessment of the effect these Regulations will have on the cost to business has been prepared and is available to the public from OFCOM at Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9HA, telephone 020 7981 3000 or on the OFCOM website at http://www.ofcom.org.uk. Copies of the report have also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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