Broadcasting Act 1990

Calculation of points for purposes of paragraph 8 U.K.

F1 9 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 8, to the categories of national or local radio services and national or local digital sound programme services set out in the Table below there shall be attributed points according to that Table. U.K.

TABLE

Category of service	Points
National radio service or national digital sound programme service	25
Category A local radio service or Category A local digital sound programme service	15
Category B local radio service or Category B local digital sound programme service	8
Category C local radio service or Category C local digital sound programme service	3
Category D local radio service or Category D local digital sound programme service	1

(2) For the purposes of the Table a local radio service or local digital sound programme service falls—

(a) into category A if the number of persons over the age of 15 resident in the coverage area of that service exceeds 4.5 million;

(b) into category B if the number of such persons exceeds 1 million but does not exceed 4.5 million;

(c) into category C if the number of such persons exceeds 400,000 but does not exceed 1 million; and

(d) into category D if the number of such persons does not exceed 400,000.

(3) No points shall be attributed to a national or local digital sound programme service unless the service is being provided.

(4) In the case of a national or local radio service provided on an amplitude modulated (AM) frequency the relevant number of points attributable to the service by virtue of the Table shall be reduced by one third.

(5) A service which, on the day on which the licence to provide it is granted, falls into a particular category for the purposes of the Table shall continue to be regarded as falling into that category so long as any increase or decrease in the relevant number of persons over the age of 15 (which would otherwise take the service outside that category) does not exceed 10 per cent.

(6) A person who is a participant with more than a 20 per cent. interest in a body corporate which is the holder of a licence to provide a national or local radio service, but who does not control that body, shall for the purposes of paragraph 8 be treated as the holder of a licence to provide a national or local service to which one half of the points which would otherwise be attributable to such a service are attributed.

(7) A person who is a participant with more than a 20 per cent. interest in a body corporate which provides a national or local digital sound programme service, but who does not control that body, shall for the purposes of paragraph 8 be treated as providing a national or local digital sound programme service to which one half of the points which would otherwise be attributable to such a service are attributed.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 Pt. III substituted (1.11.1996 except so far as relating to paras. 1(2)(b), 2(7) and otherwise 1.4.1997) by 1996 c. 55, s. 73, Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 10 (with s. 43(1)(6)); S.I. 1996/2120, art. 5, Sch. 2; S.I. 1997/1005, art. 4

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 2 Pt. III para. 9 applied (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 55, s. 44(7)(a) (with s. 43(1)(6)); S.I. 1996/2120, art. 4, Sch. 1