{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2018/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2018/regulation-51.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/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Eligibility points used by a bidder",
  "text": "(1) The number of eligibility points used by a bidder in the current round shall be the number equal to the sum of the 2.3 GHz number calculated in accordance with paragraph (2) and the 3.4 GHz number calculated in accordance with paragraph (3).\n(2) The 2.3 GHz number referred to in paragraph (1) is—\n(a) where the bidder has specified a number of principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots in the current round, the number of bids for 2.3 GHz lots in that round specified on that bidder's principal stage form, multiplied by four;\n(b) where the bidder has not specified any principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots in the current round, the number of bids for 2.3 GHz lots made by that bidder to which OFCOM assigned standing high bid status after the end of the most recent round and in respect of which the standing high bid status is not withdrawn by the bidder in the current round, multiplied by four; and\n(c) where the bidder has not specified any principal stage bids for 2.3 GHz lots in the current round and OFCOM did not assign standing high bid status after the end of the most recent round to any bids for 2.3 GHz lots made by that bidder, zero.\n(3) The 3.4 GHz number referred to in paragraph (1) is—\n(a) where the bidder has specified a number of principal stage bids for 3.4 GHz lots in the current round, the number of bids for 3.4 GHz lots in that round specified on that bidder's principal stage form;\n(b) where the bidder has not specified any principal stage bids for 3.4 GHz lots in the current round, the number of principal stage bids for 3.4 GHz lots made by that bidder to which OFCOM assigned standing high bid status after the end of the most recent round and in respect of which the standing high bid status is not withdrawn by the bidder in the current round; and\n(c) where the bidder has not specified any principal stage bids for 3.4 GHz lots in the current round and OFCOM did not assign standing high bid status after the end of the most recent round to any bids for 3.4 GHz lots made by that bidder, zero.",
  "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/51",
    "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."
}