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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15U.K.Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 2U.K.Amendments of the 1996 Act

Enforcement of digital sound programme licencesU.K.

121(1)Section 62 of the 1996 Act (enforcement of digital sound programme licences) shall be amended as follows.U.K.

(2)For “the Authority” and “The Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ OFCOM ”.

(3)In subsection (4), for the words from “national radio multiplex service” onwards there shall be substituted “ relevant multiplex service, means the last accounting period of the multiplex provider ”.

(4)In subsection (5)—

(a)for “national radio multiplex service” there shall be substituted “ relevant multiplex service ”;

(b)for “holder of the national radio multiplex licence” there shall be substituted “ multiplex provider ”; and

(c)for “the radio multiplex service” and “that radio multiplex service” there shall be substituted “ that relevant multiplex service ”.

(5)After subsection (5A) (inserted by Schedule 13) there shall be inserted—

(5B)For the purposes of this section, a service is a relevant multiplex service if it is—

(a)a national radio multiplex service;

(b)a television multiplex service; or

(c)a general multiplex service.

(5C)In this section, “multiplex provider”—

(a)in relation to a national radio multiplex service, means the multiplex provider within the meaning of section 56; and

(b)in relation to a television multiplex service or a general multiplex service, means the multiplex provider within the meaning of section 14.

(6)In subsection (10) for “apology” there shall be substituted “ statement of findings ”.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 15 para. 121 in force at 29.12.2003 by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)