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Paragraph 1 I1

United Kingdom

In section 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 M1 (orders proscribing unacceptable foreign satellite services), in subsection (6) M2, in the definition of “foreign satellite service”, for paragraph (a) (including the “or” at the end) substitute—

“(a)

a service which—

(i)

consists wholly or mainly in the transmission by satellite of television programmes which are capable of being received in the United Kingdom,

(ii)

does not fall within subsection (2)(a) or (b) of section 211 of the Communications Act 2003 (regulation of independent television services), and

(iii)

is not provided by the BBC or the Welsh Authority, or”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1990 c. 42.

M2

Subsection (6) was substituted by S.I. 1997/1682 and the definition of “foreign satellite service” was substituted by S.I. 1998/3196 and amended by S.I. 2010/1883.

Commencement

I1

Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)