Broadcasting Act 1990

2 (1) Section 2 (fees and charges for wireless telegraphy licences) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for the words from “paid to” to “by the person” substitute “paid—

(a) to the Secretary of State; or

(b) in the case of a television licence, to the BBC,

by the person”.

(3) For the first paragraph of subsection (2) substitute—

• “Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, where—

  (a)

  an application for the issue or renewal of a television licence is made to the BBC by a person ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, and

  (b)

  the BBC are satisfied, by means of a certificate issued by the local authority and produced to them by the applicant, that the applicant is a blind person not resident in a public or charitable institution or in a school,

  the BBC shall, to such extent as the Secretary of State may determine, dispense with the payment of any sum which would otherwise be payable on the issue or renewal of the licence.”