{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004/article-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004/article-3A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1652",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting (Original Productions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Original productions quota conditions (licensed public service channels) - functions conferred on OFCOM",
  "text": "(1) OFCOM must determine whether qualifying audiovisual content that is made available by a person in the circumstances described in paragraph (2) may be counted towards meeting an original productions quota condition.\n(2) Those circumstances are that the person has previously made available audiovisual content consisting of the same or substantially the same material (whether in the same year or a previous year).\n(3) OFCOM may provide in an original productions quota condition that original productions of a description specified in the licence may not be counted towards meeting an original productions quota condition.\n(4) OFCOM must prepare and publish guidance about the determination of whether an original production falls within a description specified in a licence by virtue of paragraph (3).\n(5) OFCOM may provide in an original productions quota condition that the holder of the licence must have regard to that guidance.\n(6) In this article, an “original productions quota condition” means a condition that forms part of the regulatory regime of a licensed public service channel by virtue of section 278(1) of the Communications Act 2003 (programming quotas for original productions).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3A inserted (1.1.2026) by The Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1228), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1652/article/3A",
    "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."
}