Part 6: Duties of providers of regulated services: fees Section 89: Recovery of OFCOM’s initial costs
This section introduces Schedule 10.
	Schedule 10 provides a mechanism whereby the costs incurred by OFCOM in undertaking work which directly or indirectly prepares OFCOM for their future role as the online safety regulator prior to the commencement of section 88 of the Act can be recovered by way of fees charged to providers of regulated services. In accordance with section 401(1) of the Communications Act and OFCOM’s statement under that section, OFCOM have retained Wireless Telegraphy Act receipts to meet these costs.
	Schedule 10 allows OFCOM to recover, from providers of regulated services, an amount equivalent to the amount of Wireless Telegraphy Act receipts OFCOM have retained to meet the costs incurred on preparations for the exercise of their online safety functions before the day on which section 88 comes into force.