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Section 79 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 provides for the regulation of foreign satellite programmes.Subsection (5) of that section defines such programmes as those which are transmitted by satellite from a place outside the United Kingdom other than programmes so transmitted from within any country specified in an order made by the Secretary of State for the purpose of that subsection.
The Broadcasting (Foreign Satellite Programmes) (Specified Countries) Order 1991, specified countries for the purposes of that subsection as one of the steps necessary to implement Council Directive 89/522/EEC(1) on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcasting activities.
This Order substitutes a new Schedule to the 1991 Order so as to specify additional countries which are added as one of the steps necessary to implement the European Convention on Transfrontier Television(2).
OJ No. L298, 17.10.89, p. 23.
Cm. 2178.
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