{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-restrictions-on-the-holding-of-licences-order-1991/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-restrictions-on-the-holding-of-licences-order-1991/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1176",
  "legislation_title": "The Broadcasting (Restrictions on the Holding of Licences) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/broadcasting-restrictions-on-the-holding-of-licences-order-1991",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Newspapers and domestic satellite services",
  "text": "(1) A person who is the proprietor of a national or local newspapershall not be a participant with more than a 20% interest in a bodycorporate which is the holder of a licence to provide a domesticsatellite service.\n(2) Where such a person as is mentioned in paragraph (1) is aparticipant with a more than 5% interest in a body corporate which isthe holder of a licence to provide a domestic satellite service (but, inaccordance with that paragraph, is not a participant with more than a20% interest in it), he shall not be a participant with more than a 5% interest in any other such body corporate.\n(3) A person who is the holder of a licence to provide a domesticsatellite service shall not be a participant with more than a 20%interest in a body corporate which runs a national or local newspaper.\n(4) Where such a person as is mentioned in paragraph (3) is aparticipant with more than a 5% interest in a body corporate which runsa national or local newspaper (but, in accordance with that paragraph,is not a participant with more than a 20% interest in such a body), heshall not be a participant with more than a 5% interest in any othersuch body corporate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1176/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:16.457320+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."
}