{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-prescribed-diffusion-service-order-1990/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1309",
  "legislation_title": "The Cable (Prescribed Diffusion Service) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-prescribed-diffusion-service-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Part I of the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 “prescribed diffusion service” means—\n(a) where a diffusion service is provided by means of a system which has been used for the provision of a service in respect of which the Cable Authority granted a licence before 1st July 1986, or there was a licence having effect as if so granted, a diffusion service consisting of sounds and visual images sent by means of a telecommunications system which—\n(i) is connected to apparatus by means of which the service is received, and\n(ii) is capable of conveying simultaneously visual images on at least 16 channels of 8 MHz from the place from which it is run;\n(b) where a diffusion service is provided by means of a system which has not been used for the provision of a service in respect of which the Cable Authority granted a licence before 1st July 1986, a diffusion service consisting of sounds and visual images sent for simultaneous reception in 10,000 or more dwelling houses.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (a) (i) above, a system shall not be regarded as connected to apparatus unless it would be so regarded for the purposes of section 4 of the Telecommunications Act 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 58(2) of the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1309/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
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