120 Conditions regulating premium rate services
Communications Act 2003 (2003 c 21) | Legislation

Regulation of premium rate services

120  Conditions regulating premium rate services

(1)     OFCOM shall have the power, for the purpose of regulating the provision, content, promotion and marketing of premium rate services, to set conditions under this section that bind the persons to whom they are applied.

(2)     Conditions under this section may be applied either—

(a)     generally to every person who provides a premium rate service; or

(b)     to every person who is of a specified description of such persons, or who provides a specified description of such services.

(3)     The only provision that may be made by conditions under this section is provision requiring the person to whom the condition applies to comply, to the extent required by the condition, with—

[(za)     the provisions of an approved code;]

(a)     directions given in accordance with an approved code by the enforcement authority and for the purpose of enforcing its provisions; and

(b)     if there is no such code, the provisions of the order for the time being in force under section 122.

(4)     The power to set a condition under this section includes power to modify or revoke the conditions for the time being in force under this

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