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Broadcasting Act 1990

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8General provisions as to advertisements

(1)The Commission shall do all that they can to secure that the rules specified in subsection (2) are complied with in relation to licensed services.

(2)Those rules are as follows—

(a)a licensed service must not include—

(i)any advertisement which is inserted by or on behalf of any body whose objects are wholly or mainly of a political nature,

(ii)any advertisement which is directed towards any political end, or

(iii)any advertisement which has any relation to any industrial dispute (other than an advertisement of a public service nature inserted by, or on behalf of, a government department);

(b)in the acceptance of advertisements for inclusion in a licensed service there must be no unreasonable discrimination either against or in favour of any particular advertiser; and

(c)a licensed service must not, without the previous approval of the Commission, include a programme which is sponsored by any person whose business consists, wholly or mainly, in the manufacture or supply of a product, or in the provision of a service, which the licence holder is prohibited from advertising by virtue of any provision of section 9.

(3)Nothing in subsection (2) shall be construed as prohibiting the inclusion in a licensed service of any party political broadcast which complies with the rules (so far as applicable) made by the Commission for the purposes of section 36.

(4)After consultation with the Commission the Secretary of State may make regulations amending, repealing, or adding to the rules specified in subsection (2); but no such regulations shall be made unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(5)The Commission shall not act as an advertising agent.

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