C1C2Part IV Sporting and other events of national interest

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Pt. 4: functions transferred (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 1 para. 13 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)

99 Contract for exclusive right to televise listed event to be void.

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Any contract entered into after the commencement of this section under which a television programme provider acquires rights to televise the whole or any part of a listed event live for reception in the United Kingdom, or in any area of the United Kingdom, shall be void so far as it purports, in relation to the whole or any part of the event or in relation to reception in the United Kingdom or any area of the United Kingdom, to grant those rights exclusively to any one television programme provider.

2

In this Part “television programme provider” means the BBC, the Welsh Authority or any person who is the holder of any licence under Part I of the 1990 Act or a digital programme licence under Part I of this Act.

3

For the purposes of this section rights to televise the whole or any part of an event live for reception in any area granted to a television programme provider are granted exclusively if the person granting them—

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has not granted any right to televise the whole or, as the case may be, that part of the event live for reception in that area to any other television programme provider F2, to any CTT broadcaster or on an exempt Irish service, and

b

is precluded by the terms of the contract from doing so.

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In subsection (3)—

  • “CTT broadcaster” means a person who for the purposes of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television is within the jurisdiction of a State, other than the United Kingdom, which is for the time being a party to the Convention”;

  • “exempt Irish service” means a service specified in section 211B(1)(b) of the Communications Act 2003.