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(1)Without prejudice to the generality of section 3(2) or (as the case may be) section 86(2), a licence to provide such a service as is mentioned in section 72(2)(c) or (e) may, where it is granted to the holder of a local delivery licence, authorise the provision by that person of programmes for delivery on all or any of the channels on which his local delivery service is provided.
(2)Where any licensed local delivery service consists in or includes relaying (complete and unchanged) any foreign satellite programmes, the following provisions, namely—
(a)section 6(1) so far as relating to the requirements specified in paragraphs (a), (d) and (e) of that provision, and
(b)section 7,
shall have effect as if the delivery of those programmes constituted the provision of a service licensed under Part I of this Act.
(3)Accordingly, any reference in those provisions to programmes included in a licensed service shall, where those provisions have effect as mentioned in subsection (2) above, be construed as a reference to any such programmes as are mentioned in that subsection.
(4)The holder of a local delivery licence shall be taken to be authorised by his licence to include in the licensed service advertisements which are inserted by him and are not included in any service falling within section 72(2); but, if any such advertisements are so included by him, sections 8 and 9 shall have effect as if the delivery of those advertisements constituted the provision of a service licensed under Part I of this Act and he were the holder of a licence in force under that Part.
[F1(5)In subsection (2) “foreign satellite programme” means—
(a)a television programme transmitted by satellite otherwise than as part of—
(i)a satellite television service (within the meaning of Part I),
[F2(ii)a service provided by a person who for the purposes of Council Directive 89/552/EEC is under the jurisdiction of an EEA State other than the United Kingdom, or]
(iii)a service not falling within sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) and transmitted from within any country or territory specified in an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this sub-paragraph, or
(b)a sound programme transmitted by satellite from a place outside the United Kingdom, other than a programme so transmitted from within any country specified in an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this paragraph.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 79(5) substituted (11.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1682, reg. 2, Sch. para. 12
F2S. 79(5)(a)(ii) substituted (30.12.1998) by S.I. 1998/3196, reg. 2, Sch. para. 4
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