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
”
.