{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-61A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-61A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/42",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990",
  "path": "section/61A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61A",
  "heading": "S4C public service fund.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) All amounts received by S4C under section 61 ... shall be kept by S4C in a separate fund (in this section referred to as “the public service fund”) which may be applied only for the purposes of fulfilling S4C’s public service remit.\n(3) No S4C company shall receive any direct or indirect subsidy from the public service fund.\n(4) S4C shall secure that no audiovisual content which has been wholly or partly financed out of the public service fund is included in a relevant audiovisual service provided by an S4C company before it is first included in a relevant audiovisual service provided by S4C in fulfilling its public service remit.\n(4A) In subsection (4), “audiovisual content” and “relevant audiovisual service” have the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Communications Act 2003 (see section 362 of that Act).\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 61A inserted (1.10.1996) by 1996 c. 55, s. 81(1); S.I. 1996/2120, art. 4 Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 61A(1) repealed (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 19(1) Note 1 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 61A(2) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(2)(a); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 61A(2) repealed (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 19(1) Note 1 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 61A(2) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(2)(b); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 61A(2) substituted (1.1.2026) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(2)(c); S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 61A(4) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(3)(a); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 61A(4) substituted (1.1.2026) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(3)(b); S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 61A(4) substituted (1.1.2026) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(3)(c); S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 61A(4) substituted (1.1.2026) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(3)(d); S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 61A(4A) inserted (1.1.2026) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(4); S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 61A(5)(6) repealed (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 19(1) Note 1 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Word in s. 61A heading substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 6(5); 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)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/61A",
    "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."
  }
}