SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act

Digital sound programme licensing

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1

Section 60 of the 1996 Act (digital sound programme licensing) shall be amended as follows.

2

For “the Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted OFCOM.

3

After subsection (6), there shall be inserted—

6A

Section 89 of the 1990 Act (disqualification from being licence holder or concerned with the provision of a programme service if convicted of a transmitting offence) shall apply in relation to a licence under this section as it applies to a licence under Part 3 of that Act, but with the omission of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section and of the word “or” immediately before that paragraph.

4

Sub-paragraph (3) does not impose a disqualification in respect of any offence committed before the commencement of that sub-paragraph.