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Yn ddilys o 01/04/1997

Part VU.K. The Broadcasting Standards Commission

Portrayal of violence or sexual conduct etc.U.K.

109 Monitoring by BSC of broadcasting standards.U.K.

(1)It shall be the duty of the BSC to monitor programmes to which section 108 applies with a view to enabling the BSC to make reports on the portrayal of violence and sexual conduct in, and the standards of taste and decency attained by, such programmes generally.

(2)Subject to section 125(2), the BSC may make reports on the matters specified in subsection (1) on such occasions as they think fit; and any such report may include an assessment of either or both of the following, namely—

(a)the attitudes of the public at large towards the portrayal of violence or sexual conduct in, or towards the standards of taste and decency attained by, programmes to which section 108 applies, and

(b)any effects or potential effects on the attitudes or behaviour of particular categories of persons of the portrayal of violence or sexual conduct in such programmes or of any failure on the part of such programmes to attain standards of taste and decency.

(3)The BSC may publish any report made by them in pursuance of subsection (1).

(4)The BSC shall have the further duty of monitoring, so far as is reasonably practicable, all television and sound programmes which are transmitted or sent from outside the United Kingdom but are capable of being received there, with a view to ascertaining—

(a)how violence and sexual conduct are portrayed in those programmes, and

(b)the extent to which those programmes meet standards of taste and decency.