SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts

Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act

Enforcement of digital additional television services licences

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(1)

Section 27 of the 1996 Act (enforcement of digital additional television services licences) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

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

(3)

In subsection (4), for the words from “multiplex service” onwards there shall be substituted “ television multiplex service or general multiplex service, means the last accounting period of the multiplex provider ”.

(4)

In subsection (5), for “multiplex service, the first accounting period of the holder of the multiplex licence” there shall be substituted “ television multiplex service or general multiplex service, the first accounting period of the multiplex provider ”.

(5)

After that subsection there shall be inserted—

“(5A)

In subsections (4) and (5) “multiplex provider” has the same meaning as in section 14.”