The Public Telecommunication System Designation (Eurobell (Holdings) Plc) Order 1998

Made: 26th January 1998

Laid before Parliament: 29th January 1998

Coming into force: 27th February 1998

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

1

This Order may be cited as the Public Telecommunication System Designation (Eurobell (Holdings) Plc) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 27th February 1998.

2

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

Signed

Barbara Roche, — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Firms, Trade and Industry,Department of Trade and Industry — 26th January 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Secretary of State granted to Eurobell (Holdings) Plc a licence on 25th September 1997 under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 to run the telecommunication systems specified in that licence. A copy of the licence was laid before Parliament on 29th January 1998. This Order designates those telecommunication systems as public telecommunication systems. Consequently, by virtue of section 9(3) of that Act, Eurobell (Holdings) Plc will be a public telecommunications operator in respect of the telecommunications systems run under that licence when the Order comes into force on 27th February 1998.

A copy of the licence may be obtained from the Office of Telecommunications, 50 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JJ.

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