{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2012/regulation-25.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/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Primary bids",
  "text": "(1) A primary bid must be for a selection of lots which matches a permissible bid selection for that bidder.\n(2) For each primary bid round there shall be a round price for each type of lot, which is the price at which each lot of that type is offered to bidders during that primary bid round.\n(3) A bid made during a primary bid round (“primary bid”) shall be at an amount in whole pounds being the total amount of the round prices in that primary bid round for the lots included in the selection of lots specified in the bid.\n(4) The round prices for the first primary bid round are set out in regulation 32.\n(5) The round prices for each subsequent primary bid round shall be determined by OFCOM in accordance with regulation 33.\n(6) In order to make a primary bid a bidder must, on a form provided to the bidder by OFCOM (“primary bid form”), specify—\n(a) the number of 800 MHz paired frequency lots it wishes to be included in a licence at the round price for those lots;\n(b) the number of 2.6 GHz paired frequency lots it wishes to be included in a licence at the round price for those lots;\n(c) the number of 2.6 GHz individual frequency lots it wishes to be included in a licence at the round price for those lots;\n(d) if it wishes the 800 MHz coverage obligation lot to be included in a licence at the round price for that lot;\n(e) if it wishes a 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 10 MHz lot to be included in a licence at the round price for those lots; and\n(f) if it wishes a 2.6 GHz concurrent low power 20 MHz lot to be included in a licence at the round price for those lots.\n(7) A bidder must not submit more than one primary bid in each primary bid round.\n(8) The selection of lots specified in a primary bid made by a bidder must be such that the total number of eligibility points associated with the primary bid does not exceed the bidder’s eligibility limit for that primary bid round (determined in accordance with regulation 15 or 40 and notified to the bidder in accordance with regulation 52(1)(c)).\n(9) The number of eligibility points associated with a primary bid shall be the number equal to the total of the eligibility points associated with the lots included in the selection of lots specified in the primary bid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 25 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/25",
    "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."
}