The Small-scale Radio Multiplex and Community Digital Radio Order 2019

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order—

“2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003;

“community” means—

(a)

the persons who live or work or undergo education or training in a particular area or locality, or

(b)

persons who, in a particular area or locality, have one or more interests or characteristics in common;

“community digital sound programme licence” means a licence to provide a community digital sound programme service;

“community digital sound programme service” means a digital sound programme service having the description set out in article 4;

“community radio service” has the meaning given in article 2(1) of the Community Radio Order 2004(1);

“local radio multiplex licence” and “local radio multiplex service” each has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the 1996 Act(2) (see sections 40 and 72 of that Act);

“small-scale radio multiplex service” means a radio multiplex service that is provided for a particular area or locality in the United Kingdom and is of the description specified by article 3;

“social enterprise” means a business which has as its primary objective the support of one or more projects of a social nature (rather than the production of a financial profit);

“social gain” has the meaning given by paragraph (2).

(2) In relation to a community digital sound programme service, “social gain” means the achievement, in respect of individuals or groups of individuals in the community that the service is intended to serve, or in respect of other members of the public, of the following objectives—

(a) the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion,

(b) the provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service, and

(c) the better understanding of the particular community and strengthening of links within it,

and may also include the achievement of other objectives of a social nature and, in particular, those mentioned in paragraph (3).

(3) Those objectives are—

(a) the delivery of services provided by local authorities and other services of a social nature and the increasing, and wider dissemination, of knowledge about those services and about local amenities;

(b) the promotion of economic development and of social enterprises;

(c) the promotion of employment;

(d) the provision of opportunities for the gaining of work experience;

(e) the promotion of social inclusion;

(f) the promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity;

(g) the promotion of civic participation and volunteering.

(4) In this Order, in relation to any service which is intended to serve more than one community, any reference to the community which that service is intended to serve is to be taken to include a reference to every such community.

(5) In this Order, any reference to an area overlapping with another includes reference to it lying wholly inside the other area.

(1)

S.I. 2004/1944, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(2)

Section 405(1) of the 2003 Act defines “the 1996 Act” as meaning the Broadcasting Act 1996 (c.55).