Broadcasting Act 1990

Part I General

1 (1) In this Schedule—

• “the 1984 Act” means the [1984 c. 46.] Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984;

• “diffusion service” and “prescribed diffusion service” have the same meaning as in Part I of the 1984 Act;

• “local delivery licence” and “local delivery service” have the same meaning as in Part II of this Act;

and in Part III of this Schedule “relevant licence” means a licence to provide a prescribed or other diffusion service in force by virtue of paragraph 1, 3, 5 or 8 in Part II of this Schedule.

(2) Any order which, immediately before the transfer date, is in force under section 2(3) of the 1984 Act (meaning of “cable programme service” etc.) shall continue in force on and after that date for the purposes of the definition of “prescribed diffusion service” applied by sub-paragraph (1).

2 This Schedule applies to a licence granted under section 58 of the [1984 c. 12.] Telecommunications Act 1984 (power of Secretary of State to license cable services) as it applies to one granted under section 4 of the [1984 c. 46.] Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (power of Cable Authority to license such services).