Telecommunications Act 1984

56 Cable programme services

(1) In this Part " cable programme service " means a service consisting in the sending by any person, by means of a telecommunication system (whether run by him or by any other person), of sounds or visual images or both either—

(a) for reception, otherwise than by wireless telegraphy, simultaneously in two or more dwelling-houses in the United Kingdom; or

(b) for reception, by whatever means, at a place in the United Kingdom for the purpose of their being presented there either to members of the public or to a group of persons some or all of whom do not have a business interest in hearing or seeing them.

(2) Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to a service consisting in the sending of sounds or visual images or both by any person if, while they are being conveyed, it is possible to send from each place of reception, by means of the telecommunication system or (as the case may be) the part of it by means of which they are conveyed, sounds or visual images or both for reception by that person.

(3) References in subsections (1) and (2) above to sounds are references to speech or music or both except that they do not include, in relation to any telecommunication system, speech providing information for the purposes of facilitating the use of a telecommunication service provided by means of that system.

(4) References in subsections (1) and (2) above to visual images are references to visual images which are such that sequences of them may be seen as moving pictures.

(5) References in this section to a telecommunication system do not include references to a telecommunication system the running of which does not require to be licensed under Part II of this Act.

(6) For the purposes of this section a person has a business interest in hearing or seeing sounds or visual images if he has an interest in hearing or seeing them for the purposes of his business, trade, profession or employment.