{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Announcements of programme schedules.",
  "text": "(1) Any Channel 3 licence or licence to provide Channel 4 may include conditions requiring the licence holder to include in the licensed service such announcements concerning relevant programme schedules as OFCOM may determine.\n(2) In this section “relevant programme schedules” means—\n(a) in relation to a Channel 3 licence, programme schedules for programmes to be broadcast on Channel 4 and, where any part of the area for which the licensed service is to be provided is in Wales, programme schedules for programmes to be broadcast on S4C Digital; and\n(b) in relation to the licence to provide Channel 4, programme schedules for programmes to be included in any Channel 3 service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(1) substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 15 para. 17 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 37(2)(a) inserted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(b), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1: transfer of functions (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(a) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/37",
    "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."
}