{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/55",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After paragraph 5 of Part II of Schedule 2 there is inserted—\n“ Disqualification of certain companies for certain licences\n5A (1) A BBC company, a Channel 4 company or an S4C company is a disqualified person in relation to—\n(a) any licence granted by the Commission to provide regional or national Channel 3 services or Channel 5, and\n(b) any licence granted by the Commission to provide a local delivery service.\n(2) A BBC company is also a disqualified person in relation to any licence granted by the Authority to provide a national, local or restricted service within the meaning of Part III of this Act.\n(3) The Secretary of State may by order provide that sub-paragraph (1)(b) shall not have effect in relation to any local delivery service of a description specified in the order.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 wholly in force at 1.10.1996; Sch. 2 para. 9 in force for certain purposes at 24.7.1996 see s. 149(1); Sch. 2 para. 9 in force at 1.10.1996 by S.I. 1996/2120, art. 4, Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/55/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:43.309697+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."
}