SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act

Duration and enforcement of multiplex licenses

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1

Section 23 of the 1996 Act (enforcement of digital programme licences) shall be amended as follows.

2

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

3

In subsection (4), for the words from “multiplex service” onwards there shall be substituted “ television multiplex service or general multiplex service, means the last accounting period of the multiplex provider ”.

4

In subsection (5), for “multiplex service, the first accounting period of the holder of the multiplex licence” there shall be substituted “ television multiplex service or general multiplex service, the first accounting period of the multiplex provider ”.

5

After that subsection there shall be inserted—

5A

In subsections (4) and (5) “multiplex provider” has the same meaning as in section 14.

6

In subsection (8) for “apology” there shall be substituted “ statement of findings ”.