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(1)In this section “the existing boards” means the Broadcasting Complaints Commission and the Broadcasting Standards Council.
(2)On such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint as the transfer date all the property, rights and liabilities to which either of the existing boards were entitled or subject immediately before that date shall become property, rights and liabilities of the BSC; and Schedule 4 shall have effect for the purpose of supplementing this and the following provisions of this section.
(3)Each of the existing boards shall continue in existence after the transfer date until such time as they are respectively dissolved by order made by the Secretary of State.
(4)On the transfer date the chairman and members of the existing boards shall cease to hold office; and as from that date each of the existing boards—
(a)shall consist only of a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State and, if the Secretary of State thinks fit, such one or more other persons as the Secretary of State may appoint as members, and
(b)shall have only the functions which fall to be carried out by them under or by virtue of Schedule 4.
(5)If requested to do so by the chairman appointed under subsection (4)(a) to either of the existing boards, the BSC shall furnish that existing board with any assistance required by them for the purposes of carrying out any of those functions.
(6)The Secretary of State shall not make an order under subsection (3) in relation to either of the existing boards unless he is satisfied, after consultation with that existing board and the BSC, that nothing further remains to be done by that existing board under or by virtue of Schedule 4.
(7)References in this section and Schedule 4 to property, rights and liabilities of either of the existing boards include references to property, rights and liabilities which are not capable of being transferred or assigned by them.
Subordinate Legislation Made
P1S. 128(2) power fully exercised (21.3.1997): 1.4.1997 appointed as transfer date by S.I. 1997/1005, art. 3
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