SCHEDULE 15Amendments of Broadcasting Acts
Part 2Amendments of the 1996 Act
Digital sound programme licensing
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(1)
Section 60 of the 1996 Act (digital sound programme licensing) shall be amended as follows.
(2)
For “the Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “
OFCOM
”
.
(3)
“(6A)
Section 89 of the 1990 Act (disqualification from being licence holder or concerned with the provision of a programme service if convicted of a transmitting offence) shall apply in relation to a licence under this section as it applies to a licence under Part 3 of that Act, but with the omission of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section and of the word “or” immediately before that paragraph.”
(4)
Sub-paragraph (3) does not impose a disqualification in respect of any offence committed before the commencement of that sub-paragraph.