The Public Telecommunication System Designation (TGC UK Limited) Order 1998

Made: 3rd March 1998

Laid before Parliament: 9th March 1998

Coming into force: 7th April 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 (TGC UK Limited) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 7th April 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 — 3rd March 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Secretary of State granted to TGC UK Limited on 30 December 1997 a licence under section 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 to run the telecommunication systems specified in the licence. A copy of the licence was laid before Parliament on 9th March 1998. This Order designates those telecommunication systems as public telecommunication systems. Conse quently, by virtue of section 9(3) of that Act, TGC UK Limited will be a public telecommunications operator when this Order comes into force on 7th April 1998.

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

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