{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licensing-procedures-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licensing-procedures-regulations-2010/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1823",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Licensing Procedures) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-licensing-procedures-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Requirements that must be met for the grant of a licence",
  "text": "(1) Licences shall be granted by OFCOM, either—\n(a) in relation to particular equipment; or\n(b) in relation to any equipment falling within the description specified in the licence and expressed by reference to such factors (including factors confined to the manner in which it is established, installed or used), as are described in the licence.\n(2) An applicant for the grant of a licence (whether in respect of a station or apparatus) must complete the licence application form which is appropriate for the class of licence being applied for and must provide—\n(a) the name and address of the applicant;\n(b) where the duration for which the licence is required is less than twelve months, the duration; and\n(c) where information is specified as being required in the Schedule to these Regulations for the class of licence concerned, that information.\n(3) An applicant for the grant of a licence in respect of a station must also provide—\n(a) the frequencies on which the applicant wishes to operate the station;\n(b) the location of any proposed fixed station;\n(c) the position of any remote control point for a fixed station;\n(d) the purpose or type of service for which the proposed station is intended;\n(e) the type of station proposed for use;\n(f) the intended geographical range of operation;\n(g) the type, position, direction, signal strength, output power and signal beam width of each antenna forming part of the proposed station;\n(h) the modulation characteristics and data bit rate of—\n(i) transmissions by the proposed station; and\n(ii) any transmissions which are for the purpose of station recognition;\n(i) the call sign desired by the applicant;\n(j) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(j) in the case of an application in respect of a mobile station, an indication of whether or not the station is to be established on board—\n(i) an aircraft; or\n(ii) a ship; and\n(k) if the application is in relation to more than one fixed station, the length and direction of proposed transmission signal paths between stations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3)(j) omitted (12.4.2016) by virtue of The Wireless Telegraphy (Licensing Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/418), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(3)(j) substituted for reg. 5(3)(k) (12.4.2016) by The Wireless Telegraphy (Licensing Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/418), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg 5(3)(l) renumbered as reg. 5(3)(k) (12.4.2016) by The Wireless Telegraphy (Licensing Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/418), regs. 1, 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 9.8.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1823/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:30.043420+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."
}