Part V The Broadcasting Standards Commission

Complaints

113 Complaints relating to taste and decency, etc.

1

The BSC shall not entertain a standards complaint which is made—

a

where the relevant programme is a television programme, more than two months after the relevant date, or

b

where the relevant programme is a sound programme, more than three weeks after that date,

unless it appears to them that in the particular circumstances it is appropriate for them to do so.

2

In subsection (1) “the relevant date” means—

a

the date on which the relevant programme was broadcast by a broadcasting body or included in a licensed service, or

b

where it has been so broadcast or included on more than one occasion, the date on which it was last so broadcast or included.

3

Where, apart from this subsection, there would fall to be considered by the BSC two or more standards complaints which appear to them to raise the same, or substantially the same, issue or issues in relation to a particular programme, the BSC may determine that those complaints shall be treated for the purposes of this Part as constituting a single complaint.