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Version Superseded: 29/12/2003

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Point in time view as at 25/07/2003. This version of this provision has been superseded. Help about Status

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Communications Act 2003, Section 75 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

75Conditional access systems and access to digital servicesU.K.
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(1)It shall be the duty of OFCOM, when setting a condition falling within section 73(4), to ensure that it contains all such provision as they consider appropriate for the purpose of taking account of the relevant international standards.

(2)It shall be the duty of OFCOM to ensure—

(a)that access-related conditions are applied to every person who provides a conditional access system in relation to a protected programme service; and

(b)that those conditions make all such provision as is required by the provision contained from time to time in Part I of Annex I to the Access Directive (conditions relating to access to digital programme services).

(3)In this section—

  • conditional access system” means any system, facility, arrangements or technical measure under or by means of which access to programme services requires—

    (a)

    a subscription to the service or to a service that includes that service; or

    (b)

    an authorisation to view it, or to listen to it, on a particular occasion;

  • protected programme service” means a programme service the programmes included in which cannot be viewed or listened to in an intelligible form except by the use of a conditional access system.

Commencement Information

I1S. 75 in force at 25.7.2003 for specified purposes by S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3))

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