The Media Ownership (Local Radio and Appointed News Provider) Order 2003

Connected persons

3.—(1) For the purposes of this Order—

(a) any person connected with a person who holds a licence shall be treated as if he also were a holder of that licence, and

(b) any person connected with a person who provides a local digital sound programme service shall be treated as if he also were providing that service,

and references to a person becoming the holder of a licence, or beginning to provide a service, shall be construed accordingly.

(2) References in this article to a person being connected with any other person shall be construed in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act(1).

(3) But a person shall not be treated as holding a local sound broadcasting licence or a local digital sound programme licence, or providing a local digital sound programme service, merely because he is the director of a body corporate which holds the licence or (as the case may be) provides the service.

(1)

Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act was amended by paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, and Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the 1996 Act, and by section 357(1) of, paragraph 69(1) to (3) of Schedule 15 to, and Schedule 19 to, the 2003 Act.