SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 1Amendments of the 1990 Act

Procedure on application etc. for additional television services licences

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(1)

Section 51 of the 1990 Act (consideration of applications for licences for additional television services) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

For “the Commission”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ OFCOM ”.

(3)

In subsection (1), for paragraph (a) (requirement of approval of technical plans) there shall be substituted—

“(a)

that the technical plan submitted under section 50(3)(b), in so far as it involves the use of an electronic communications network (within the meaning of the Communications Act 2003), contains proposals that are acceptable to them; and”.

(4)

Subsections (2) and (7) shall cease to have effect.