SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act

Licensing of digital additional services

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(1)

Section 25 of the 1996 Act (licensing of digital additional services) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsections (1) to (4), for “the Commission”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted OFCOM.

(3)

After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

“(4A)

A digital additional services licence is not required for a service that is or is comprised in a qualifying service.”

(4)

Subsections (5) and (6) (application of sections 6 to 12 of the 1990 Act) shall cease to have effect.