Telecommunications Act 1984
c. 12
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PART II
24.--(1) Where licences granted under section 7 above inelude provisions which are framed by reference to meters for the Approval etc.
time being approved under this section for use in connection of meters.
with telecommunication systems to which the licences relate,
then, for the purposes of those provisions, meters may be approved for use in connection with those systems(a) by the Secretary of State ; or
(b) with the consent of, or in accordance with a general
authorisation given by, the Secretary of State, by the
Director.
(2) A person applying for an approval under this section may
be required by the person to whom the application is made to
comply with such requirements as the person to whom the application is made may think appropriate ; and those requirements
may include a requirement to satisfy some other person with
respect to any matter.
(3) An approval under this section may apply either to a
particular meter or to any meter of a description specified in the
approval, and may so apply either for the purposes of a particular
telecommunication system or for the purposes of any telecom-
munication system of a description so specified.
(4) An approval under this section may specify conditions
which must be complied with if the approval is to apply, for
any purpose specified in the approval, to any meter which is
so specified or is of a description so specified ; and any such
condition may impose on the person to whom the approval is
given a requirement from time to time to satisfy any person with
respect to any matter.
(5) Nothing in this section shall preclude a person (not being
the Secretary of State or the Director) by whom any matter falls
to be determined for the purposes of any requirement imposed
in pursuance of subsection (2) or (4) above from charging
any fee in respect of the carrying out of any test or other assessment made by him.
(6) Standards to which any meter of a description specified
in the designation must conform if it is to be approved for use
in connection with a telecommunication system so specified or
of a description so specified may be designated(a) by the Secretary of State ; or
(b) with the consent of, or in accordance with a general
authorisation given by, the Secretary of State, by the
Director ;
and a standard so designated may apply subject to such exceptions as may be determined by or under the designation.
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