SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 15

Amendments of Broadcasting Acts
Part 2

Amendments of the 1996 Act

Digital sound programme licensing
119
1
Section 60 of the 1996 Act (digital sound programme licensing) shall be amended as follows.
2
For “the Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ OFCOM ”.
3
After subsection (6), there shall be inserted—
6A
Section 89 of the 1990 Act (disqualification from being licence holder or concerned with the provision of a programme service if convicted of a transmitting offence) shall apply in relation to a licence under this section as it applies to a licence under Part 3 of that Act, but with the omission of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section and of the word “or” immediately before that paragraph.
4
Sub-paragraph (3) does not impose a disqualification in respect of any offence committed before the commencement of that sub-paragraph.
Sch. 15 para. 119 in force at 29.12.2003 by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)