SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE 16 Broadcasting: Additional Payments by Programme Contractors

Part III Transitional Provisions

2

Where any accounting period of a programme contractor begins before 1stJanuary 1990 and ends after 31st December 1989, the additional paymentspayable by the programme contractor in relation to that accounting periodunder section 32 of the M1Broadcasting Act 1981 shall be theaggregate of—

(a)

the amounts payable by him on the assumption that section 181 of this Actwas not in force at any time during the accounting period, multipliedby—

XX+Y,math

and

(b)

the amounts payable by him on the assumption that that section was inforce throughout the accounting period, multiplied by—

YX+Y;math

where (taking any odd four days or more as a week)—

  • X is the number of weeks in the accounting period falling before 1stJanuary 1990, and

  • Y is the number of weeks in the accounting period falling after 31stDecember 1989.