75Conditional access systems and access to digital services
(1)It shall be the duty of OFCOM, when setting a condition falling within section 73(4), to ensure that it contains all such provision as they consider appropriate for the purpose of taking account of the relevant international standards.
(2)It shall be the duty of OFCOM to ensure—
(a)that access-related conditions are applied to every person who provides a conditional access system in relation to a protected programme service; and
(b)that those conditions make all such provision as is required by the provision contained from time to time in Part I of Annex I to the Access Directive (conditions relating to access to digital programme services).
(3)In this section—
“conditional access system” means any system, facility, arrangements or technical measure under or by means of which access to programme services requires—
(a)a subscription to the service or to a service that includes that service; or
(b)an authorisation to view it, or to listen to it, on a particular occasion;
“protected programme service” means a programme service the programmes included in which cannot be viewed or listened to in an intelligible form except by the use of a conditional access system.