UK legislation regulating electronic communications networks, services, and spectrum, and establishing Ofcom as the converged regulator. Applies to telecoms and broadcasting providers in the UK.
10
Rules extracted
163
Obligations decomposed
16.3x
Avg obligations per rule
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Jurisdiction
The Communications Act 2003 is the principal UK legislation governing electronic communications and broadcasting. It established the Office of Communications (Ofcom) as the converged regulator for telecommunications, broadcasting, spectrum, and postal services. The Act covers Ofcom's general duties, licensing and authorisation, access and interconnection, universal service, spectrum management, content regulation, consumer protection, privacy obligations, enforcement powers, and media ownership rules. It replaced the Telecommunications Act 1984 and consolidated regulation of broadcasting with telecommunications.
Source
1
Regulation
Extracted
10
Rules
Decomposed
163
Obligations
Decomposition ratio
Each rule is decomposed into an average of 16.3 atomic obligations — the smallest testable units that can be independently violated.
Fully extracted & scored
All 163 obligations have been decomposed, titled, risk-scored, and embedded for semantic matching.
Every obligation in Communications Act 2003 is scored across independent risk dimensions:
Obligation Weight
How critical within the regulatory framework
Violation Likelihood
How often breached in practice
Enforcement Evidence
Regulator enforcement history and penalties
Cascade Dependency
How many obligations depend on this one
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