{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licence-award-regulations-2025/regulation-76.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/76",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Preparing a 26 GHz lower assignment stage options list for each bidder",
  "text": "(1) OFCOM shall determine which 26 GHz lower assignment stage options shall be included in the 26 GHz lower assignment stage options list for each bidder which is eligible to bid in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) A bidder’s 26 GHz lower assignment stage options shall be each of those blocks of numbered 26 GHz lower lots, which satisfy all of the following conditions—\n(a) the number of 26 GHz lower lots contained in the block is equal to the number of lots won within that bidder’s winning principal stage bid for 26 GHz lower lots;\n(b) if that bidder were assigned the 26 GHz lower lots contained in the block the following two conditions would be satisfied—\n(i) each other bidder could be assigned 26 GHz lower lots contained in a block that, in respect of that other bidder’s winning principal stage bid for 26 GHz lower lots, satisfies the condition in subparagraph (a); and\n(ii) the leftover 26 GHz lower lots not assigned to that bidder or any other bidder would form a single block of numbered 26 GHz lower lots which would include 26 GHz lot 1;\n(c) if the bidder is a 26 GHz double lot winner, at least one of the following three conditions would be satisfied—\n(i) the block would include 26 GHz lot 7;\n(ii) the block would be adjacent to a block of 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to a 26 GHz double lot winner) which would include 26 GHz lot 7; or\n(iii) the block would be adjacent to a block of 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to a 26 GHz double lot winner) which would itself be adjacent to a block in a series of other contiguous blocks of 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to 26 GHz double lot winners), provided that one block in this series would include 26 GHz lot 7; and\n(d) if the bidder is a 26 GHz lower only lot winner, at least one of the following four conditions would be satisfied—\n(i) the block would include 26 GHz lot 1;\n(ii) the block would be adjacent to the block of leftover 26 GHz lower lots;\n(iii) the block would be adjacent to a block of 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to a 26 GHz lower only lot winner) which would include 26 GHz lot 1;\n(iv) the block would be adjacent to a block of 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to a 26 GHz lower only lot winner) which would itself be adjacent to a block in a series of other contiguous blocks of 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to 26 GHz lower only lot winners), provided that one block in this series would include 26 GHz lot 1; or\n(v) the block would be adjacent to a block in a series of contiguous blocks, which comprises the block of leftover 26 GHz lower lots and blocks containing 26 GHz lower lots (assigned to 26 GHz lower only lot winners).",
  "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/76",
    "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."
}