{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1981/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1981/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/68",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1981",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Duty to publicise Commission.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of each broadcasting body to publish (by means of broadcasts or otherwise) regular announcements publicising the Commission and their function of considering and adjudicating upon broadcasting complaints.\n(2) It shall be the duty of the Cable Authority to take such steps as they reasonably can to secure the publication (by means of licensed cable programme services or otherwise) of regular announcements publicising the Commission and their function of considering and adjudicating upon cable programme complaints.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 58 renumbered s. 58(1) and s. 58(2) inserted after s. 58(1) as so renumbered by Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46, SIF 96), s. 29, Sch. 2 para. 6(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 (c. 46, SIF 96), s. 29, Sch. 2 para. 6(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/68/section/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:36.912022+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."
}