Broadcasting Act 1990

131 Supplementary provisions relating to variation of programme contracts

(1) Where the IBA make any variation of a programme contract in pursuance of section 130(1) to (4) or (6), they may make such variations of that contract of a supplemental, incidental, consequential or transitional nature as they consider appropriate.

(2) The relevant authority may on or after the transfer date make any variation of a programme contract which could have been made before that date by the IBA—

(a) in pursuance of section 130(1) to (4), or

(b) in pursuance of subsection (1) above in connection with any variation made in pursuance of section 130(1) to (4);

and any such variation may be made with retrospective effect as from that date.

(3) Before making any variation of a programme contract in pursuance of any provision of section 130, this section or Schedule 11, the IBA or (as the case may be) the relevant authority shall consult the programme contractor concerned.

(4) Any such variation shall be made by means of a notice served on that programme contractor.

(5) In this section—

• “programme contract” means a contract between the IBA and a programme contractor;

• “programme contractor” includes a teletext contractor;

• “the relevant authority”—

  (a)

  in relation to a programme contract for the provision of television programmes or teletext transmissions, means the Commission; and

  (b)

  in relation to a programme contract for the provision of local sound broadcasts, means the Radio Authority.