{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004/article-4A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004/article-4A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1652",
  "legislation_title": "Broadcasting (Original Productions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-original-productions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/4A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4A",
  "heading": "Original productions duties (S4C) - functions conferred on OFCOM",
  "text": "(1) OFCOM must determine whether qualifying audiovisual content that is made available by S4C in the circumstances described in paragraph (2) may be counted towards meeting any S4C original productions duty.\n(2) Those circumstances are that S4C 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 give a direction to S4C that original productions of a description specified in the direction may not be counted towards meeting a S4C original productions duty.\n(4) Before giving such a direction, OFCOM must consult S4C.\n(5) OFCOM must prepare and publish guidance about the determination of whether an original production falls within a description specified in a direction given by virtue of paragraph (3).\n(6) S4C must have regard to that guidance.\n(7) In this article, a “S4C original productions duty” means a duty of S4C under or by virtue of paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 12 to the Communications Act 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 4A inserted (1.1.2026) by The Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1228), regs. 1(1), 3(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1652/article/4A",
    "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."
}