Regulation 52 Eligibility event
An eligibility event has occurred in a round where—
a bidder indicated a valid request to carry forward its eligibility limit in the most recent round on its principal stage form; or
the conditions set out in paragraph (2) apply.
The conditions are that—
the bidder did not, in the most recent round, submit a valid principal stage form;
the number of eligibility points used by the bidder in relation to the bidder's principal stage bids to which OFCOM assigned standing high bid status after the end of the previous round is lower than the bidder's eligibility limit for the most recent round; and
the limit on the number of eligibility events set out in paragraph (3) is not met.
For each bidder, an eligibility event may not occur on more than three occasions.
After the end of each principal stage round, except after the end of the final principal stage round, OFCOM will notify each bidder of the remaining number of occasions on which an eligibility event may occur in respect of that bidder.