Part 3

Television and Radio Services
Chapter 2

Regulatory Structure for Independent Television Services

The public teletext service

Delegation of provision of public teletext service
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1
The licence for the provision of the public teletext service may—
a
include provision enabling the licence holder to authorise an eligible person to provide the whole or a part of the public teletext service on his behalf; and
b
impose conditions subject to and in accordance with which the whole or a part of that service may be provided by a person authorised by the licence holder.
2
The conditions of the licence to provide the public teletext service apply in relation to its provision by a person authorised to do so on the licence holder’s behalf as they apply to its provision by the licence holder.
3
A contravention of those conditions by a person so authorised shall be treated for the purposes of this Chapter and the 1990 Act as a contravention on the part of the licence holder.
4
In this section “eligible person” means a person who is not a disqualified person under Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act in relation to the licence for the public teletext service.