F1Part I Independent Television Services
Chapter II Television Broadcasting on Channels 3, 4 and 5
Provision of news programmes
31 Provision of news on Channels 3 and 5.
1
A Channel 3 or Channel 5 licence shall include conditions requiring the licence holder—
a
to broadcast in the licensed service news programmes of high quality dealing with national and international matters; and
b
to broadcast such programmes in that service at intervals throughout the period for which the service is provided, and in particular (except in the case of a national Channel 3 licence) at peak viewing times.
2
A regional Channel 3 licence shall, in addition, include conditions requiring the news programmes broadcast by the licence holder in compliance with conditions imposed in pursuance of subsection (1) to be programmes provided by a nominated news provider which are—
a
presented live, and
b
broadcast simultaneously with the broadcasts of news programmes provided by the same nominated news provider which are made by other holders of regional Channel 3 licences in compliance with conditions so imposed.
3
In subsection (2) “nominated news provider” means a body corporate for the time being nominated for the purposes of that subsection under section 32.
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