Clause 149 - Duties of OFCOM when carrying out spectrum functions
Communications Bill
10:45 am
Mr Andrew Lansley (South Cambridgeshire, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister for the nature of his response, and I do not want to appear churlish. I understand that clause 149 has travelled some distance, and that it is much more explicit about the potential for a harmonised set of duties to be applied across all spectrum use and management.
I confess that I had not understood that there were particular circumstances—I would hard-pressed to find them—in which the duties in subsections (1) and (2) or the factors to be taken into account would not be relevant to the activity of spectrum management by Ofcom. However, given the Minister's explanation that they would have to be literally not relevant for Ofcom not to have regard to them, I am content. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 149 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 150 ordered to stand part of the Bill.