SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 1Amendments of the 1990 Act

Television broadcasting on Channel 3

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(1)

Section 17 of the 1990 Act (award of licences to person submitting highest bid) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

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

(3)

In subsection (12)(b), for “specified in section 16(2) or (3) (as the case may be)” there shall be substituted “that have to be imposed under Chapter 4 of Part 3 of the Communications Act 2003 by conditions relating to—

(i)

the public service remit for that service,

(ii)

programming quotas,

(iii)

news and current affairs programmes, and

(iv)

programme production and regional programming”.