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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act

Multiplex licences

79(1)Section 7 of the 1996 Act (multiplex licences) shall be amended as follows.

(2)For “the Commission” and “The Commission”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “OFCOM”.

(3)In subsection (4)—

(a)after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted—

(ca)the applicant’s proposals as to the number (if any) of digital sound programmes services which are to be broadcast, as to the characteristics of each of those services and as to the areas in which they would be provided;

(b)in paragraph (d) for “those services” there shall be substituted “the services mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (ca)”.