{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/audiovisual-media-services-regulations-2020/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/audiovisual-media-services-regulations-2020/regulation-54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1062",
  "legislation_title": "The Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/audiovisual-media-services-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Advance notification for on-demand programme and video-sharing platform services",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person is providing an on-demand programme service immediately before 6th April 2021 and—\n(a) there is a significant difference between the service being provided and the service that was notified to the appropriate regulatory authority under section 368BA(1) of the 2003 Act, and\n(b) that significant difference is a change that may affect the determination of jurisdiction in accordance with paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Article 2 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive.\n(2) Section 368BA(2) of the 2003 Act has effect as if the requirement to give a notification of the significant difference before providing the service with a significant difference were a requirement to give a notification of the significant difference before 6th May 2021.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where a person is providing a video-sharing platform service immediately before 6th April 2021.\n(4) Section 368V(1) of the 2003 Act has effect as if the requirement to give a notification of the person’s intention to provide the service before beginning to provide it were a requirement to give a notification before 6th May 2021 that the service is being provided.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“the 2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003;\n“the Audiovisual Media Services Directive” has the same meaning as in the 2003 Act (see section 405(1) of that Act);\n“on-demand programme service” has the same meaning as in the 2003 Act (see section 368A of that Act);\n“video-sharing platform service” has the same meaning as in the 2003 Act (see section 368S of that Act).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 54 in force at 1.11.2020, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1062/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:59.287617+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."
}