(1)Sections 40 and 109 of the 1990 Act (power to direct licensee to broadcast correction or apology) shall be amended as follows.
(2)For “apology”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “a statement of findings”.
(3)After subsection (5), there shall be inserted—
“(6)For the purposes of this section a statement of findings, in relation to a case in which OFCOM are satisfied that the holder of a licence has contravened the conditions of his licence, is a statement of OFCOM’s findings in relation to that contravention.”
Schedule 13 (which modifies the maximum penalties that may be imposed on the holders of Broadcasting Act licences) shall have effect.
(1)This section applies to the following amounts—
(a)any amount payable to OFCOM under a Broadcasting Act licence;
(b)the amount of a penalty imposed by OFCOM under Part 1 or 3 of the 1990 Act, Part 1 or 2 of the 1996 Act or this Part of this Act.
(2)Every amount to which this section applies shall be recoverable by OFCOM as a debt due to them from the person obliged to pay it.
(3)The following liabilities—
(a)a person’s liability to have a penalty imposed on him under Part 1 or 3 of the 1990 Act, Part 1 or 2 of the 1996 Act or this Part in respect of acts or omissions of his occurring while he was the holder of a Broadcasting Act licence, and
(b)a liability of a person as the holder of such a licence to pay an amount to which this section applies,
are not affected by that person’s Broadcasting Act licence having ceased (for any reason) to be in force before the imposition of the penalty or the payment of that amount.