{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1652",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting (Original Productions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of “original productions” for licensed public service channels",
  "text": "In section 278 of the Communications Act 2003 (programming quotas for original productions), references, in relation to a licensed public service channel, to “original productions” are references to programmes of the following description, namely, programmes which—\n(a) are commissioned by or for the provider of a licensed public service channel with a view to their first being made available in the United Kingdom on a service that is a qualifying audiovisual service; and\n(b) are European programmes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3(a) substituted (1.1.2026) by The Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1228), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1652/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:23:39.344171+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}