{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/schedule-19/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/schedule-19/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/19/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Service may appoint such employees as they may determine with the consent of OFCOM as to numbers and terms of employment.\n(2) If the Service determine to do so in the case of any of their employees, the Service shall pay to or in respect of those employees such pensions, allowances or gratuities, or provide and maintain for them such pension schemes (whether contributory or not), as the Service may determine.\n(3) The Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 shall not require insurance to be effected by the Service.\n(4) A person who is an employee of the Service is not to be eligible to be appointed as a member of the Service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 19 substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 15 para. 73(3) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 15 para. 73(2) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 7(4) inserted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), ss. 210(3), 411(2) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1969 c. 57."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/schedule/19/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:53.031174+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."
}