Explanatory note

This Order brings into force immediately those provisions of the substituted Part IV of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1990 which empower the Independent Television Commission and the Radio Authority to determine whether certain prospective alliances between broadcasting licence holders or service providers and newspaper proprietors could be expected to operate against the public interest, and those provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1996 which require the Independent Television Commission to draw up a code relating to the televising of listed events.

This Order brings into force on 1 October 1996 those provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1996 which are specified in Schedule 1 to the Order, subject to the transitional provisions in Article 4.

This Order brings into force on 1 November 1996 those provisions of the Broadcasting Act 1996 which are specified in Schedule 2 to the Order.