The Satellite Television Service Regulations 1997

16.—(1) Part III of Schedule 2 (restrictions to prevent accumulations of interests in licensed services) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 1—

(a)in sub-paragraph (1) for “seventeen” there is substituted “sixteen”, and

(b)in sub-paragraph (2) for paragraphs (c) and (d) there is substituted—

(d)satellite television services.

(3) In paragraph 2 (general limit on holding of licences to provide television services or interests in bodies corporate holding such licences)—

(a)in sub-paragraphs (1)(a) and (2)(a) and (b), for “1(2)(a), (c), (d), (e) or (h)” there is substituted “1(2)(a), (d), (e) or (h)”, and

(b)in sub-paragraph (3) for “non-domestic satellite” there is substituted “satellite television”.

(4) In paragraph 16 (power to impose additional limits in relation to licences to provide television or radio services)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (1), for “1(2)(b), (c), (d) or (f)” there is substituted “paragraph 1(2)(b), (d) or (f)”,

(b)in sub-paragraph (4)—

(i)paragraph (a) is omitted,

(ii)in paragraph (b) for “non-domestic satellite” there is substituted “satellite television”,

(iii)the words “44(2)” are omitted, and

(iv)for “domestic satellite services, non-domestic satellite services” there is substituted “satellite television services”, and

(c)in sub-paragraph (6), for “(4)(a), (b) or (c)” there is substituted “(4)(b) or (c)”.