# Broadcasting Act 1990, Section 99: Procedure to be followed by Authority in connection with consideration of applications for national licences.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Where a person has made an application for a national licence in accordance with section 98, OFCOM shall not proceed to consider whether to award him the licence on the basis of his cash bid in accordance with section 100 unless it appears to them—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) that he would be able to maintain the proposed service and any proposed simulcast radio service corresponding to that service throughout the period for which the licence would be in force.
(2) Any reference to an applicant in section 100 (except in section 100(9)(b)) is accordingly a reference to an applicant in whose case it appears to OFCOM that the requirements of subsection (1) above are satisfied.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/42/section/99 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1990/section-99
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