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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-150",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-150.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "section/150",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "150",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part V.",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“appropriate regulatory body”, in relation to a programme included in a licensed service, means the regulatory body by whom that service is licensed;\n“the BCC” means the Broadcasting Complaints Commission;\n“broadcasting body” means the BBC or the Welsh Authority;\n“complaint” means a complaint to the BCC of any such unjust or unfair treatment or unwarranted infringement of privacy as is mentioned in section 143(1);\n“licensed service” means—\n(a) a television programme service (within the meaning of Part I of this Act), or\n(b) an independent radio service falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 84(1),\nwhich is licensed under Part I or (as the case may be) Part III of this Act, or any additional service (within the meaning of Part I or III of this Act) which is licensed under that Part of this Act and constitutes a teletext service;\n“participant”, in relation to a programme, means a person who appeared, or whose voice was heard, in the programme;\n“the person affected”—\n(a) in relation to any such unjust or unfair treatment as is mentioned in section 143(1), means a participant in the programme in question who was the subject of that treatment or a person who, whether such a participant or not, had a direct interest in the subject-matter of that treatment; and\n(b) in relation to any such unwarranted infringement of privacy as is so mentioned, means a person whose privacy was infringed;\n“regulatory body” means the Independent Television Commission or the Radio Authority;\n“the relevant programme”, in relation to a complaint, means the programme to which the complaint relates;\n“television programme” includes a teletext transmission, and references to programmes shall be construed accordingly;\n“unjust or unfair treatment” includes treatment which is unjust or unfair because of the way in which material included in a programme has been selected or arranged.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. V (ss. 142–150) modified by S.I. 1990/2579, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/150",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:18:29.647628+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}