C2C1Part 3Television and Radio Services F3ETC

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F3

Word in Pt. 3 inserted (8.6.2010) by Digital Economy Act 2010 (c. 24), ss. 22(4), 47(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

F2F5Chapter 2Regulatory Structure for Independent Television Services

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F2

Ss. 214-244 amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3197 art. 6 Sch. 2 (31.3.2005) by Communications (Jersey) (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/855), arts. 1(1), 2(a)(i)

F5

Ss. 214-244 amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3195 art. 6 Sch. 2 (31.3.2005) by Communications (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/856), arts. 1(1), 2(a)(i)

Reviews relating to licensing of Channels 3 & 5 and teletext

I1230Orders suspending rights of renewal

1

This section applies where the Secretary of State has received and considered a report submitted to him by OFCOM under section 229.

2

If—

a

the report contains a recommendation by OFCOM for the making of an order under this section, or

b

the Secretary of State considers, notwithstanding the absence of such a recommendation, that it would be appropriate to do so,

he may by order provide that F8a licence for the time being in force that is of a description specified in the order is not to be renewable under section 216 or 222 from the end of the licensing period in which he received the report F6(but see subsection (7)) .

3

An order under this section preventing the renewal of F7a licence from the end of a licensing period must be made at least eighteen months before the end of that period.

4

The Secretary of State is not to make an order under this section preventing the renewal of F9a licence from the end of the initial licensing period unless he has fixed a date before the end of that period as the date for digital switchover.

5

Where the Secretary of State postpones the date for digital switchover after making an order under this section preventing the renewal of F12a licence from the end of the initial licensing period, the order shall have effect only if the date to which digital switchover is postponed falls before the end of that period.

6

Subsection (5) does not affect the power of the Secretary of State to make another order under this section after postponing the date for digital switchover.

7

An order under this section with respect to F4a Channel 3 licence must be an order of one of the following descriptions—

a

an order applying to every licence to provide a Channel 3 service;

b

an order applying to every licence to provide a national Channel 3 service; or

c

an order applying to every licence to provide a regional Channel 3 service.

8

An order under this section does not affect—

a

the person to whom a licence may be granted on an application made under section 15 of the 1990 Act or under paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to this Act; or

b

rights of renewal in respect of F1a licence first granted so as to take effect from the beginning of a licensing period beginning after the making of the order, or from a subsequent time.

9

No order is to be made containing provision authorised by this section unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.

10

Subsection (8) of section 224 applies for construing references in this section to the date for digital switchover as it applies for the purposes of that section.

11

In this section—

  • “initial licensing period” F11, in relation to a licence, means the licensing period ending with the initial expiry date F10for that type of licence ; and

  • “licensing period” has the same meaning as in section 229.