{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996/section-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996/section-64.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/55",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-act-1996",
  "path": "section/64",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": "Licensing of digital additional services.",
  "text": "(1) An application for a licence to provide digital additional services (in this Part referred to as a “digital additional services licence”) shall—\n(a) be made in such manner as OFCOM may determine, and\n(b) be accompanied by such fee (if any) as they may determine.\n(2) At any time after receiving such an application and before determining it, OFCOM may require the applicant to furnish such additional information as they may consider necessary for the purpose of considering the application.\n(3) Any information to be furnished to OFCOM under this section shall, if they so require, be in such form or verified in such manner as they may specify.\n(4) Where an application for a digital additional services licence is made to OFCOM in accordance with the provisions of this section, they shall grant the licence unless precluded from doing so by section 42(2)(a) or 44(1).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 64 substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 15 para. 122 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/55/section/64",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:43.309697+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."
  }
}