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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-61.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "section/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Funding of S4C.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall secure that in 2012 and each subsequent year S4C are paid an amount which he considers sufficient to cover the cost to S4C during that year of fulfilling S4C’s public service remit.\n(2) The Secretary of State may discharge the duty in subsection (1) by making payments himself or entering into an agreement with another person for that person to do so (or both).\n(3) If under this section S4C are paid an amount for any year which exceeds the cost referred to in subsection (1), S4C may pay the difference from the public service fund referred to in section 61A to the person (or pro rata to the persons) from whom payments were received.\n(4) Any sums required by the Secretary of State under this section shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 61 substituted (14.2.2012) by Public Bodies Act 2011 (c. 24), ss. 31, 38(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 61(1) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 5(2)(a); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 61(1) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 5(2)(b); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 61(1) substituted (1.1.2026) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 5(2)(c); S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 61(3) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 5(3)(a); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in s. 61(3) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 5(3)(b); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 61 heading substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 5(4); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/61",
    "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."
  }
}