{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advanced-television-services-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advanced-television-services-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1901",
  "legislation_title": "The Advanced Television Services Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/advanced-television-services-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“analogue television set” means a television set which can receive and display analogue television signals;\n“conditional access service” means a service which is provided over a conditional access system;\n“conditional access system” has the meaning given by section 75(3) of the Communications Act 2003;\n“digital television set” means a television set with an integrated decoder of digital television signals;\n“electronic communications network” has the meaning given by section 32 of the Communications Act 2003;\n“electronic communications service” has the meaning given by section 32 of the Communications Act 2003;\n“public electronic communications network” has the meaning given by section 151(1) of the Communications Act 2003;\n“rent out” in relation to any television set or other equipment means the first supplying of that set or equipment pursuant to the making of a rental agreement, and “offer for rent” and “expose for rent”' shall be construed accordingly;\n“sell” includes transfer by means of conditional sale or hire purchase, and “offer for sale” and “expose for sale” shall be construed accordingly;\n“television programme” means any programme (with or without sounds) which—\n(a)is produced wholly or partly to be seen on television; and\n(b)consists of moving or still images or of legible text or of any combination of those things; and\n“wide-screen television service” means a television service that consists wholly or partially of programmes produced and edited to be displayed with a width-height ratio of 16:9.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (17.11.2003) by The Advanced Television Services (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2750), regs. 1, 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1901/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:14:38.971907+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}