{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-179",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-179.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "section/179",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "179",
  "heading": "Unauthorised decoders for encrypted services etc.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In section 299 of the Act of 1988 (fraudulent reception of programmes broadcast from countries or territories outside the United Kingdom)—\n(a) subsection (2) shall cease to have effect; and\n(b) in subsection (5), after “297” there shall be inserted “ , 297A ”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 179(1) repealed (28.5.2000) by S.I. 2000/1175, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/179",
    "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."
  }
}