Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42)

Part III U.K. Independent Radio Services

Chapter II U.K. Sound Broadcasting Services

Miscellaneous provisions relating to national and local services U.K.

107 Party political broadcasts. U.K.

(1) A national licence shall include—

(a) conditions requiring the licence holder to include party political broadcasts in the licensed service; and

(b) conditions requiring the licence holder to observe such rules with respect to party political broadcasts as the Authority may determine.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) [F1 but subject to section 14 of the Registration of Political Parties Act 1998 (prohibition of broadcasts by unregistered parties)], the Authority may determine for the purposes of that subsection—

(a) the political parties on whose behalf party political broadcasts may be made; and

(b) in relation to any political party on whose behalf such broadcasts may be made, the length and frequency of such broadcasts.

(3) Any rules made by the Authority for the purposes of this section may make different provision for different cases or circumstances.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 107(2) inserted (24.3.1999) by 1998 c. 48, s. 23, Sch. 3 para. 3; S.I. 1999/393, art. 2