The Broadcasting (Programme Contractors' Additional Payments) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 2868

BROADCASTING

The Broadcasting (Programme Contractors' Additional Payments) Order 1991

Made

18th December 1991

Coming into force

1st January 1992

Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsections (8) and (9)(d)of section 32 of the Broadcasting Act 1981(1), with the approval of the Treasury and after consultation with the Independent Television Commission, I hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Broadcasting (Programme Contractors' Additional Payments) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st January 1992.

2.  In section 32(4) of the Broadcasting Act 1981, for the purposes of Table A (Rates of Additional Payments in Respect of Advertising Revenue), the following amendments shall be made:

(a) for “10 per cent” there shall be substituted “2.5 per cent”; and

(b) for “£15 million” there shall be substituted “£25 million”.

Kenneth Baker

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

18th December 1991

We approve this Order

Irvine Patnick

Tom Sackville

Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

18th December 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends section 32(4) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 as regards the rates of additional payments to be made by Independent Television Commission programme contractors to the Commission in respect of advertising revenue. These rates are set out in Table A in that section.

Under article 2(a) the relevant revenue rate is reduced from 10 per cent. to 2.5 per cent., and under article 2(b) the free slice for advertising revenue is increased from £15 million to £25 million.

(1)

1981 c. 68. The relevant amendments to section 32 are those made by paragraph 1(4) and (9) of Part I of Schedule 16 to the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), which substituted part of subsection (4) and subsection (9) of that section. Section 32continues in force with the modifications made by paragraph 2(3) of Part II of Schedule 11 to the Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42).