The regulatory regime for every licensed service includes the conditions (if any) that OFCOM consider appropriate for ensuring fair and effective competition in the provision of licensed services or of connected services.
Those conditions must include the conditions (if any) that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing that the provider of the service does not—
enter into or maintain any arrangements, or
engage in any practice,
which OFCOM consider, or would consider, to be prejudicial to fair and effective competition in the provision of licensed services or of connected services.
A condition imposed under this section may require a licence holder to comply with one or both of the following—
a code for the time being approved by OFCOM for the purposes of the conditions; and
directions given to him by OFCOM for those purposes.
In this section—