{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2817",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Preparing a permissible bid selection list for each bidder",
  "text": "(1) In determining the permissible bid selection list for each bidder OFCOM shall include each possible selection of lots which—\n(a) would, if it were to be included in a licence granted to that bidder, comply with the spectrum cap rule in respect of that bidder;\n(b) does not include more than one 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lot;\n(c) does not include more than one 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lot;\n(d) if it includes one 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lot, does not also include a 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lot;\n(e) if it includes one 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lot, does not also include a 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lot;\n(f) if it includes one 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lot, does not include more than twelve 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots;\n(g) if it includes one 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lot, does not include more than ten 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots;\n(h) if it includes any 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots, includes at least two such lots;\n(i) does not include more lots of a type than the number of lots available of that type;\n(j) has a number of eligibility points associated with it which is not more than the number that OFCOM have determined under regulation 15 to be the bidder’s eligibility limit for the first primary bid round;\n(k) meets the rule set out in paragraph (2) if that paragraph applies; and\n(l) meets the rule set out in paragraph (3) if that paragraph applies.\n(2) If there is only one opted-in bidder, each permissible bid selection on that bidder’s permissible bid selection list must include (in addition to any other lots which are included) all of the lots selected in a valid opt-in bid made by that bidder.\n(3) If there is at least one opted-in bidder, the permissible bid selections for each bidder must all be such that if that bidder were to make a valid principal stage bid for any one of those selections, that bid could, when taken together with others (which were also valid principal stage bids), form a combination which meets the requirements (in regulation 67(4)) which must be satisfied for a combination of principal stage bids to be a valid combination of principal stage bids.\n(4) The number of eligibility points associated with a selection of lots shall be the number equal to the total of the eligibility points associated with the lots included in the selection of lots.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 23.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2817/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:57.689365+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."
}