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The Broadcasting (Limit in relation to Provision of Digital Programme Services) Order 2000

S.I. 2000/2913 · Made 29 October 2000

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BROADCASTING

Made 29th October 2000

Laid before Parliament 31st October 2000

Coming into force 21st November 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraphs 7(1) and (10) of Part III of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1990f1, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1990 c. 42. Part III of Schedule 2 was substituted by paragraph 10 of Part III of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1996 (c. 55). Paragraph 7 was amended by the Television Broadcasting Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/3196) and the Limit in Relation to Provision of Digital Programme Services Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2770).

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Appointed Day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Broadcasting (Limit in relation to Provision of Digital Programme Services) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 21st November 2000.

2Appointed Day

The Secretary of State hereby appoints 21st November 2000 as the appointed day for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) of Part III of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1990.

Signature

Chris Smith

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

29th October 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints a day for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) of Part III of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1990. Under paragraph 7(1), before such appointed day, no person holding a licence to provide digital programme services could at any time provide digital programme services by means of two or more television multiplex services, if the number of points attributable to those digital programme services exceeded the permitted maximum. The effect of appointing a day for the purposes of paragraph 7(1) is that from that day, the prohibition in paragraph 7(1) will no longer apply.