SCHEDULES

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)

After subsection (6), there shall be inserted—

“(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.