(1) A subscriber may make a request to his Access Provider, through the Customer Preference Registration Facility, for registration of his telephone number in the Provider Customer Preference Register, in accordance with the procedure specified under Schedule-I to these regulations:
Provided that a subscriber who is already registered in the National Do Not Call Register established under sub-regulation (1) of regulation 6 of the Telecom Unsolicited Commercial Communications Regulations, 2007 (4 of 2007) is not required to re-register and his said registration shall be valid, for the purpose of these regulations, under the ‘fully blocked’ category:
Provided further a subscriber who is already registered in the National Do Not Call Register established under sub-regulation (1) of regulation 6 of the 7 Telecom Unsolicited Commercial Communications Regulations, 2007 (4 of 2007 may change his preference in accordance with the procedure specified under Schedule-I to these regulations.
(2) Every Access Provider shall, immediately on receipt of a request under sub-regulation (1), verify the correctness of the request so received and if the request is found to be correct, communicate, through SMS, within twenty four hours of the request, a unique registration number to the subscriber:
Provided that in case the subscriber particulars are not found to be correct, the details thereof shall be intimated to the subscriber within twenty four hours.
(3) Every Access Provider shall, in respect of request that have been found to be admissible after verification as per sub regulation (2), record details of such request in the Provider Customer Preference Register.