{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-23A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-23A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "section/23A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23A",
  "heading": "Sustainability duty of Corporation",
  "text": "(1) The Corporation must carry on their activities in the way that they have reasonable grounds to consider would be most likely to enable the Corporation, over the long term—\n(a) to maintain or increase the amount of activity that is done in pursuance of their primary functions, and\n(b) to be securely in a position to meet costs incurred in the carrying out of their primary functions.\n(2) In this section, “primary functions” has the same meaning as in section 199(1) of the Communications Act 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23A inserted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), ss. 29(2), 55(3)(b); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/23A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:53.031174+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."
  }
}