The Television Broadcasting Regulations 1998

5.  In section 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 (orders proscribing unacceptable foreign satellite services), for the definition of “foreign satellite service” in subsection (6) there is substituted—

  • “foreign satellite service” means—

    (a)

    a service which is provided by a person who is not for the purposes of Council Directive 89/552/EEC under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom and which consists wholly or mainly in the transmission by satellite of television programmes which are capable of being received in the United Kingdom, or

    (b)

    a service which consists wholly or mainly in the transmission by satellite from a place outside the United Kingdom of sound programmes which are capable of being received in the United Kingdom;