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                    ““purposes of public service television broadcasting in the United

 

Kingdom” shall be construed in accordance with subsection (4) of

 

section 260 and subsections (5) and (6) of that section shall apply for

 

the purposes of any provision of this Act referring to such purposes

 

as they apply for the purposes of a report under that section;”

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Page 348     , line 8, after “of” insert “, or in connection with,”

After Clause 401

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Insert the following new Clause—

 

       “Modifications consequential on regulations implementing Directives

 

     (1)    This section applies if it appears to the Secretary of State that regulations

 

under section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) for giving

 

effect to Community obligations imposed by the Communications

 

Directives have come into force before the passing of this Act.

 

     (2)    The Secretary of State may by order—

 

           (a)           repeal any relevant provision of this Act which appears to him to be

 

unnecessary, or to have become spent, in consequence of the

 

regulations;

 

           (b)           make such other modifications of the relevant provisions of this Act

 

as he considers appropriate in consequence of the regulations;

 

           (c)           revoke provision made by the regulations; and

 

           (d)           make transitory or transitional provision in relation to anything

 

done by or under the regulations.

 

     (3)    The Secretary of State’s power under this section includes power to make

 

consequential amendments of enactments not contained in this Act.

 

     (4)    In this section—

 

                    “the Communications Directives” means—

 

                  (a)                 the Access Directive, that is to say, Directive 2002/19/EC of

 

the European Parliament and of the Council on access to,

 

and interconnection of, electronic communications

 

networks and associated facilities;

 

                  (b)                 the Authorisation Directive, that is to say, Directive 2002/

 

20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the

 

authorisation of electronic communications networks and

 

services;

 

                  (c)                 the Framework Directive, that is to say, Directive 2002/21/

 

EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a

 

common regulatory framework for electronic

 

communications networks and services;

 

                  (d)                 the Universal Service Directive, that is to say, Directive

 

2002/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council


 
 

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on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic

 

communications networks and services;

 

                    “relevant provision of this Act” means a provision contained in—

 

                  (a)                  Part 1, 2 or 6; or

 

                  (b)                 Chapter 1 of Part 5.

 

     (5)    No order is to be made containing provision authorised by this section

 

unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by

 

a resolution of each House.”

Clause 402

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Page 35  2     , line 39, leave out “or”

Clause 403

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Page 35  3 , line 5, at end insert—

 

     “( )       An order under subsection (2) may include provision making such

 

transitional or transitory provision, in addition to that made by Schedule

 

18, as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in connection with the

 

bringing into force of any provisions of this Act; and the power to make

 

transitional or transitory provision includes power to make—

 

           (a)           different provision for different cases (including different provision

 

in respect of different areas);

 

           (b)           provision subject to such exemptions and exceptions as the

 

Secretary of State thinks fit; and

 

           (c)           such incidental, supplemental and consequential provision as he

 

thinks fit.”

Schedule 1

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Page 355  , line 10, leave out paragraph (e)

Schedule 11

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Page 400, line 37,     at end insert—

 

          “( )         Where the defaulter is a partnership constituted under the law of

 

Scotland, the power of the court to punish the defaulter includes power

 

to punish a member of the partnership.”

Schedule 12

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Page 402, line 43, leave out from “under” to end of line 45 and insert “the BBC

 

Charter and Agreement”

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Page 417, line 8,     leave out “fair treatment of” and insert “equalisation of

 

opportunities for”

Schedule 13

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Page 424   , line 14,     after second “to” insert “television multiplex services and

 

general”

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Page 424   , line 38,     after second “to” insert “television multiplex services and


 
 

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general”

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Page 426   , line 31,     leave out “national radio multiplex revenue” and insert “relevant

 

multiplex services”

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Page 426   , line 40,     leave out from “revenue” to “is” in line 43 and insert “attributable

 

to a person in relation to national radio multiplex services”

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Page 426, line 44,     leave out from “(3)” to “is” in line 45 and insert—

 

              “(5B)                A determination or estimate for the purposes of subsection (2A)

 

or (5) above of the share of multiplex revenue attributable to a

 

person in relation to television multiplex services or general

 

multiplex services”

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Page 427   , line 17,     leave out “national radio multiplex revenue” and insert “relevant

 

multiplex services”

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Page 427   , line 29,     leave out from “revenue” to “is” in line 32 and insert “attributable

 

to a person in relation to national radio multiplex services”

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Page 427, line 33,     leave out from “(3)” to “is” in line 34 and insert—

 

              “(6B)                A determination or estimate for the purposes of subsection (2A)

 

or (6) above of the share of multiplex revenue attributable to a

 

person in relation to general multiplex services”

Schedule 15

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Page 437, line 12, leave out from “fees),” to end of line 16 and insert “the words

 

from “and the amount” onwards shall be omitted.”

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Page 440, line 19, leave out “In”

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Page 440, line 20, after “licence)” insert “shall be amended as follows.

 

          (2)”

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Page 440, line 21, at end insert—

 

          “(3)         In subsection (2), in the definition of “associated programme provider”,

 

for the words from “appears” to “inclusion” there shall be substituted “is

 

or is likely to be involved, to a substantial extent, in the provision of the

 

programmes included”

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Page 441   , line 7, leave out paragraph 17

220

Page 447, line 3, leave out from “fees),” to end of line 7 and insert “the words from

 

“and the amount” onwards shall be omitted.”

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Page 450, line 12, after “interpretation)” insert—

 

              “(a)                in the definition of “associated programme provider”, for the

 

words from “appears” to “inclusion” there shall be substituted “is

 

or is likely to be involved, to a substantial extent, in the provision

 

of the programmes included”; and

 

              (b)                in the words after the definition of “the relevant period”,”

222

Page 458, line 7, at end insert—

 

          “( )         In paragraph 1(6) of Part 1 (meaning of “more than a 20 per cent.

 

interest”), for “20 per cent.”, wherever occurring, there shall be

 

substituted “5 per cent.”.”


 
 

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223

Page 461, line 1, leave out from “fees),” to end of line 5 and insert “the words from

 

“and the amount” onwards shall be omitted.”

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Page 463   , line 24,     at end insert—

 

              “( )                for “a multiplex licence”, in each place, there shall be substituted

 

“a television multiplex service or a general multiplex service”;

 

              ( )                for “the multiplex service to which the licence relates”, in each

 

place, there shall be substituted “that multiplex service”;”

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Page 464   , line 24,     at end insert “; and

 

              (b)                for “a multiplex licence” there shall be substituted “a television

 

multiplex service or a general multiplex service”.”

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Page 470, line 35, leave out sub-paragraph (4) and insert —

 

          “( )         In subsection (2), sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (b) and the word “or”

 

immediately preceding it shall be omitted.

 

          ( )         In subsection (3) (fixing of fees), the words from “and the amount”

 

onwards shall be omitted.”

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Page 474   , line 13,     leave out paragraph 116 and insert—

 

  “116        (1)                  Section 56 of the 1996 Act (multiplex revenue) shall be amended as

 

follows.

 

          (2)         In subsection (1)—

 

              (a)             for “section 55(1)” there shall be substituted “this Part”;

 

              (b)             for “the holder of a national radio multiplex licence” there shall

 

be substituted “the person who is the multiplex provider in

 

relation to a national radio multiplex service”;

 

              (c)             in paragraph (a)(i), “to which the licence relates” shall be omitted;

 

              (d)             in paragraphs (c) and (d), for “the holder of the radio multiplex

 

licence” there shall be substituted “the multiplex provider”.

 

          (3)         In subsections (2) to (8)—

 

              (a)             for “the holder of the radio multiplex licence”, “the licence

 

holder” and “the holder of the multiplex licence”, wherever

 

occurring, there shall be substituted, in each case, “the multiplex

 

provider”; and

 

              (b)             for “the Authority”, wherever occurring, there shall be

 

substituted “OFCOM”.

 

          (4)         In subsection (9)—

 

              (a)             for “a national radio multiplex licence”, in each place, there shall

 

be substituted “a national radio multiplex service”;

 

              (b)             for “the radio multiplex service to which the licence relates”, in

 

each place, there shall be substituted “that radio multiplex

 

service”;

 

              (c)             after the definition of “additional services provider” there shall

 

be inserted—

 

                                      “‘multiplex provider’—

 

                           (a)                          in relation to a national radio multiplex service for

 

which a person holds a licence under this Part,

 

means the licence holder; and

 

                           (b)                          in relation to a national radio multiplex service

 

which is not licensed under this Part, means the

 

person who provides that service.””


 
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