SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 1Amendments of the 1990 Act

Special procedure for applications for local licences

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1

Section 104B of the 1990 Act (special procedure for applications for local licences) shall be amended as follows.

2

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

3

After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—

1A

In subsection (1)(c) the reference to the service in question, in relation to a case in which it is a pre-transfer local licence that is due to expire, is a reference to the equivalent local service for which a licence is capable of being granted at times on or after the radio transfer date.