C1Part III Independent Radio Services
C1Chapter II Sound Broadcasting Services
National services
99C1 Procedure to be followed by Authority in connection with consideration of applications for national licences.
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Where a person has made an application for a national licence in accordance with section 98, F4OFCOM shall not proceed to consider whether to award him the licence on the basis of his cash bid in accordance with section 100 unless it appears to them—
a
that his proposed service would F1...—
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comply with any requirement specified under subsection (1)(b)(iii) or (iv) of section 98, F2...
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b
that he would be able to maintain that service F3and any proposed simulcast radio service corresponding to that service throughout the period for which the licence would be in force.
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Any reference to an applicant in section 100 (except in section 100(9)(b)) is accordingly a reference to an applicant in whose case it appears to F4OFCOM that the requirements of subsection (1)(a) and (b) above are satisfied.
Pt. 3: transfer of functions (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 1 para. 5 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)