{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-72.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/669",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licence Award) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/72",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "40 GHz assignment stage bids",
  "text": "(1) In order to bid for a 40 GHz assignment stage option, a bidder must, on the assignment stage form, specify either a value of zero pounds or an amount in whole thousands of pounds that it is willing to pay, in addition to the total 40 GHz base price for that bidder’s winning principal stage bid for 40 GHz lots, for a licence that authorises the use of frequencies corresponding to the block of numbered 40 GHz lots that is the 40 GHz assignment stage option.\n(2) A bidder may make no more than one 40 GHz assignment stage bid for each 40 GHz assignment stage option.\n(3) A bidder is not required to make a 40 GHz assignment stage bid.\n(4) A 40 GHz assignment stage bid is a valid 40 GHz assignment stage bid if—\n(a) the bid is specified on a valid assignment stage form; and\n(b) the bidder has paid the full sum of the required first assignment stage round deposit by the deadline specified by OFCOM.\n(5) Where a bidder does not make a valid 40 GHz assignment stage bid for a 40 GHz assignment stage option that bidder will be deemed to have made a valid 40 GHz assignment stage bid with a value of zero pounds for that 40 GHz assignment stage option.\n(6) Where there is only one winning principal stage bidder for all of the 40 GHz lots available in the award process, that bidder shall be deemed to have made a valid 40 GHz assignment stage bid with a value of zero pounds for that 40 GHz assignment stage option.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/669/regulation/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:15:06.977449+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."
}