The Broadcasting (Restrictions on the Holding of Licences) Order 1991

PART V NATIONAL PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATORS

16.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the categories of licences granted by the Commission and the Authority which may not be held by any of the persons mentioned in Part V of Schedule 2 to the Act are—

(a) in the case of the Commission, licences to provide a Channel 3service, Channel 5 and a domestic satellite service; and

(b) in the case of the Authority, a licence to provide a national radioservice.

(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a national public telecommunicationsoperator who has an annual turnover, attributable to his business assuch an operator, which exceeds £2 billion.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), a national publictelecommunications operator shall not hold a licence to provide a localdelivery service.

(4) Paragraph (3) does not prevent a national public telecommunicationsoperator from holding a licence to provide a local delivery service byvirtue of paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule 12 to the Act.

(5) Paragraph (3) does not prevent a national public telecommunicationsoperator from holding a licence to provide a local delivery servicewhere—

(a) the closing date for applications for the licence fell after 31stMarch 1994; and

(b) immediately before the invitation for applications for the licencewas published, no part of the area for which the service is authorisedto be provided lay within an area in respect of which there was a localdelivery licence or a licence which continued in force by virtue ofparagraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 12 to the Act.