8(1)Section 16 of the 1990 Act (consideration of applications for Channel 3 licences) shall be amended as follows.
(2)For “the Commission”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “OFCOM”.
(3)In subsection (1), for “specified in subsection (2) or (3) below (as the case may be)” there shall be substituted “that have to be imposed under Chapter 4 of Part 3 of the Communications Act 2003 by conditions relating to—
(i)the public service remit for that service,
(ii)programming quotas,
(iii)news and current affairs programmes, and
(iv)programme production and regional programming”.
(4)Subsections (2) and (3) of that section shall cease to have effect.
(5)In subsection (4) of that section—
(a)for “specified in subsection (2) or (3) (as the case may be),” there shall be substituted “that have to be imposed under Chapter 4 of Part 3 of the Communications Act 2003 by conditions relating to—
(a)the public service remit for that service,
(b)programming quotas,
(c)news and current affairs programmes, and
(d)programme production and regional programming,”;
(b)the words from “and in applying” onwards shall be omitted.
(6)Subsections (5) to (8) shall cease to have effect.