{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2018/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2018/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/86",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of existing spectrum holdings",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “existing spectrum holdings” means—\n(a) existing immediately useable spectrum holdings; and\n(b) existing overall spectrum holdings.\n(2) “Existing immediately useable spectrum holdings” means—\n(a) any authorisation to establish or use a wireless telegraphy station, or to install or use wireless telegraphy apparatus, under a wireless telegraphy licence which relates to any of the frequencies in the frequency bands listed in Schedule 7; and\n(b) any contract or arrangement under which such an authorisation is to be acquired.\n(3) “Existing overall spectrum holdings” means—\n(a) any authorisation to establish or use a wireless telegraphy station, or to install or use wireless telegraphy apparatus, under a wireless telegraphy licence which relates to any of the frequencies in the frequency bands listed in Schedule 8; and\n(b) any contract or arrangement under which such an authorisation is to be acquired.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/86/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:05.154964+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."
}