SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts
Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act
115Multiplex revenue
1
Section 56 of the 1996 Act (multiplex revenue) shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1)—
a
for “section 55(1)” there shall be substituted “this Part”;
b
for “the holder of a national radio multiplex licence” there shall be substituted “the person who is the multiplex provider in relation to a national radio multiplex service”;
c
in paragraph (a)(i), “to which the licence relates” shall be omitted;
d
in paragraphs (c) and (d), for “the holder of the radio multiplex licence” there shall be substituted “the multiplex provider”.
3
In subsections (2) to (8)—
a
for “the holder of the radio multiplex licence”, “the licence holder” and “the holder of the multiplex licence”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted, in each case, “the multiplex provider”; and
b
for “the Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “OFCOM”.
4
In subsection (9)—
a
for “a national radio multiplex licence”, in each place, there shall be substituted “a national radio multiplex service”;
b
for “the radio multiplex service to which the licence relates”, in each place, there shall be substituted “that radio multiplex service”;
c
after the definition of “additional services provider” there shall be inserted—
“multiplex provider”—
a
in relation to a national radio multiplex service for which a person holds a licence under this Part, means the licence holder; and
b
in relation to a national radio multiplex service which is not licensed under this Part, means the person who provides that service.