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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/685",
  "legislation_title": "The Broadcasting Digital Terrestrial Sound (Technical Service) Order 1998",
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  "heading": "Meaning of technical service",
  "text": "The service specified for the purpose of section 63(3)(b) of the Broadcasting Act 1996 is that consisting of the transmission of telecommunication signals (as such expression is defined in section 114(6) of the Broadcasting Act 1990) by means of which access to programmes or other information included in digital sound programme services or digital additional services is controlled so that only those persons who are authorised to receive such programmes and information do so.",
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  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 42."
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      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2155",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003"
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      "affecting": "uksi/2006/2793",
      "affecting_title": "The Broadcasting Digital Terrestrial Sound (Technical Service) Order 2006"
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  "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."
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