Section 9 Power to require two or more multiplex licences to be granted to one person.

United Kingdom

(1)

F1OFCOM may, before publishing a notice under section 7(1), determine that two or more multiplex licences are on that occasion to be granted to one person.

(2)

Where OFCOM have so determined, they shall publish a single notice under section 7(1) in relation to the licences.

(3)

In relation to any application made in pursuance of such a notice—

(a)

references in section 7(4) to the proposed service shall have effect as references to each of the proposed services,

(b)

the reference in section 8(1) to the multiplex licence shall have effect as a reference to all the licences concerned,

(c)

in section 8(2), the reference in paragraph (d) to the proposed service shall have effect as a reference to all the proposed services considered together, and other references to the proposed service shall have effect as references either to each of the proposed services or to all of them considered together, as OFCOM consider appropriate.

(4)

Nothing in this section applies in relation to the renewal of a multiplex licence.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 9 substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 15 para. 81 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)