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The Public Telecommunication System Designation (Unisource Holding (UK) Ltd) Order 1997


Published: 1997-03-17

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Statutory Instruments
1997 No. 927

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The Public Telecommunication System Designation (Unisource Holding (UK) Ltd) Order 1997

Made
17th March 1997

Laid before Parliament
19th March 1997

Coming into force
17th April 1997

Whereas the Secretary of State has granted to Unisource Holding (UK) Ltd on 18th December 1996 a licence (“the Licence”) under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984(1) (“the Act”), to which section 8 of the Act applies, for the running of the telecommunication systems specified in the Licence (“the Applicable Systems”):

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 9 of the Act, hereby makes the following Order:—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Unisource Holding (UK) Ltd) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 17th April 1997.

2.  Each of the Applicable Systems is hereby designated as a public telecommunication system.

Ian Taylor,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Science and Technology,
Department of Trade and Industry
17th March 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
The Secretary of State granted to Unisource Holding (UK) Ltd on 18th December 1996 a licence under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 to run the telecommunication systems specified in the licence in the United Kingdom. A copy of the licence was laid before Parliament on 19th March 1997. This Order designates those telecommunication systems as public telecommunication systems. Consequently, by virtue of section 9(3) of that Act, Unisource Holding (UK) Ltd will be a public telecommunications operator when this Order comes into force on 17th April 1997.
A copy of the licence may be obtained from the Office of Telecommunications, 50 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JJ.

(1)
1984 c. 12.