# The Broadcasting (Programme Contractors' Additional Payments) Order 1991

S.I. 1991/2868 · made 18 December 1991

This Order amends section 32(4) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 as regards the rates of additional payments to be made by Independent Television Commission programme contractors to the Commission in respect of advertising revenue. These rates are set out in Table A in that section.

Made under: Broadcasting Act 1981

## Introductory text

BROADCASTING
Made 18th December 1991
Coming into force 1st January 1992
Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsections (8) and (9)(d)of section 32 of the Broadcasting Act 1981, with the approval of the Treasury and after consultation with the Independent Television Commission, I hereby make the following Order:

## 1 

This Order may be cited as the Broadcasting (Programme Contractors' Additional Payments) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st January 1992.

## 2 

In section 32(4) of the Broadcasting Act 1981, for the purposes of Table A (Rates of Additional Payments in Respect of Advertising Revenue), the following amendments shall be made:
(a) for “10 per cent” there shall be substituted “2.5 per cent”; and
(b) for “£15 million” there shall be substituted “£25 million”.

## Signature

Kenneth Baker
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
18th December 1991
We approve this Order
Irvine Patnick
Tom Sackville
Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
18th December 1991

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends section 32(4) of the Broadcasting Act 1981 as regards the rates of additional payments to be made by Independent Television Commission programme contractors to the Commission in respect of advertising revenue. These rates are set out in Table A in that section.
Under article 2(a) the relevant revenue rate is reduced from 10 per cent. to 2.5 per cent., and under article 2(b) the free slice for advertising revenue is increased from £15 million to £25 million.

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