F1C2Part I Independent Television Services

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Amendments (Textual)
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Pt I (ss.1-71) applied (1.10.1996) by 1988 c. 48, s.72, as replaced 1996 c. 55, s. 138, Sch. 9 para. 1; S.I. 1996/2120, art. 4, Sch. 1

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pt. I: transfer of functions (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(a) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)

C2Chapter II Television Broadcasting on Channels 3, 4 and 5

Channel 3

C2C116C2 Procedure to be followed by Commission in connection with consideration of applications for licences.

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Where a person has made an application for a Channel 3 licence in accordance with section 15, F2OFCOM shall not proceed to consider whether to award him the licence on the basis of his cash bid in accordance with section 17 unless it appears to them—

a

that his proposed service would comply with the requirements F3that have to be imposed under Chapter 4 of Part 3 of the Communications Act 2003 by conditions relating to—

i

the public service remit for that service,

ii

programming quotas,

iii

news and current affairs programmes, and

iv

programme production and regional programming, and

b

that he would be able to maintain that service throughout the period for which the licence would be in force,

and any reference to an applicant in section 17 (except in section 17(12)(b)) is accordingly a reference to an applicant in whose case it appears to F2OFCOM that the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) above are satisfied.

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In deciding whether an applicant’s proposed service would comply with the requirements F5that have to be imposed under Chapter 4 of Part 3 of the Communications Act 2003 by conditions relating to—

a

the public service remit for that service,

b

programming quotas,

c

news and current affairs programmes, and

d

programme production and regional programming,

F2OFCOM shall take into account any representations made to them in pursuance of section 15(6)(b) with respect to that service; F6....

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