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F111(1)No one person may at any time hold more than one licence to provide a national radio service.
(2)No one person may at any time—
(a)hold more than one licence to provide a national radio multiplex service, or
(b)hold a licence to provide national digital sound programme services and provide more than one national digital sound programme service.
(3)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a) a person who is a participant with more than a 20 per cent. interest in a body corporate which holds a licence to provide a radio multiplex service but does not control that body shall be treated as holding the licence held by that body.
(4)No one person may at any time—
(a) hold a licence to provide a radio multiplex service and be a participant with more than a 10 per cent. interest in more than one body corporate which holds any other such licence, or
(b)be a participant with more than a 10 per cent. interest in each of three or more bodies corporate which hold such licences.
(5)The Secretary of State may by order—
(a)amend sub-paragraph (1), (2) or (4) by substituting a different numerical limit for any numerical limit for the time being specified there, and
(b)amend sub-paragraph (3) or (4) by substituting a different percentage for any percentage for the time being specified there.
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F1Sch. 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
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