Part 2: Telecommunications Infrastructure Section 72: Power to impose time limits on the determination of code proceedings
This Section inserts a new section 119A into the 2003 Act, providing the Secretary of State with a power to specify in regulations a time period within which specified proceedings on applications made under the Code must be determined. The effect of such regulations may include the extension or removal of any time limits, or the application of different time limits to different types of proceedings, provided such proceedings are of the type described in the new section 119A(2). The new section 119A(3) makes clear that, in exercising this power, the Secretary of State is able to amend or revoke existing provision made by the Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1210). The Section also ensures that the power conferred by the new section 119A includes a power to amend or repeal certain signposts in primary legislation which might otherwise be rendered obsolete by the exercise of that power.