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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 9 June 2023 - onwards
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Regulation 33 Transfer or lease of individual rights of use for radio spectrum

(1) The Regulator shall ensure that undertakings may transfer or lease to other undertakings, individual rights of use for radio spectrum.

(2) Where an individual right of use for radio spectrum was initially obtained by an undertaking free of charge or assigned for broadcasting, the Regulator may, with the consent of the Minister, determine that paragraph (1) does not apply.

(3) An undertaking intending to transfer or lease rights of use for radio spectrum shall notify the Regulator of its intention to do so and of the effective transfer of the rights. The notification shall be in accordance with procedures specified by the Regulator. The Regulator shall ensure that such notifications are made public. In the case of harmonised radio spectrum, any such transfer shall comply with such harmonised use.

(4) Where the original conditions attached to the rights of use for radio spectrum are maintained, the Regulator shall allow the transfer or lease of those rights. Without prejudice to the need to ensure the absence of a distortion of competition, in particular in accordance with Regulation 34, the Regulator shall:

(a) submit transfers and leases to the least onerous procedure possible;