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Section 65(3).

SCHEDULE 8U.K. Transitional Provisions and Savings

GeneralU.K.

1U.K.Any reference in this Act (whether express or implied) to a thing done or falling to be done under a provision of this Act shall, so far as the context permits, be construed as including, in relation to times, circumstances and purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision repealed by this Act had effect, a reference to a thing done or falling to be done under that corresponding provision; and where that provision was itself a re-enactment of an earlier provision such references shall extend in the same way to that earlier provision, and so on.

Programme contractsU.K.

2U.K.Nothing in the repeals made by this Act shall affect—

(a)the continued operation of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to the M1Independent Broadcasting Authority Act 1974 with respect to contracts in force immediately before the commencement of that Act; or

(b)the continued operation of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the M2Broadcasting Act 1980 with respect to contracts in force immediately before the commencement of the provisions of that Act to which that paragraph applies, except that, in the operation of that paragraph in relation to the commencement of any such provision by virtue of whose commencement this Act comes into force under section 66(4), references in that paragraph to the new statutory provisions shall be read as references to this Act (instead of as provided by sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph).

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3U.K.In its application to contracts for the provision of local sound broadcasts for a period beginning before 1st January 1980, section 19(1)(b) shall have effect as if the reference to the relevant maximum period were a reference to a period of 11 years or the period ending with 31st December 1986, whichever is the shorter.

4U.K.In relation to contracts for the provision of teletext transmissions for a period beginning on or before 1st January 1982—

(a)subsections (3) and (4) of section 19 shall not apply; and

(b)subsection (5) shall have effect as if the words “other than the first” were omitted.

5U.K.Nothing in any provision of Part I relating to the Fourth Channel or the Welsh Authority, or in Part II, shall be taken to require the variation of any contract between the Authority and a TV programme contractor made before 13th November 1980 and relating only to a period or periods ending before 1st January 1982.

Expenditure relevant for the purposes of s. 35U.K.

6U.K.For the purposes of section 35 (as it has effect in relation to the additional payments mentioned in either subsection (1)(b) or (2)(b) of section 32), account may be taken of any expenditure which is referable to any period before the commencement of this Act.

Saving of amendmentsU.K.

7U.K.Any enactment passed before 12th June 1972, and any statutory instrument having effect by virtue of such an enactment, which had effect immediately before the commencement of this Act with the amendment made by section 38 of the M3Independent Broadcasting Authority Act 1973 shall continue to have effect with that amendment, that is, with the substitution of the name “Independent Broadcasting Authority” for the name “ Independent Television Authority ”.

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8U.K.Part II of Schedule 1 to the M4House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 shall continue to have effect with the amendments made by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the M5Broadcasting Act 1980, and Part II of Schedule 1 to the M6Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 shall continue to have effect with the amendment made by the said paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to that Act.

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