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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-prescribed-diffusion-service-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cable-prescribed-diffusion-service-order-1990/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nUnder the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 the Cable Authority are charged with a number of duties in relation to “prescribed diffusion services”. These include the duty, under section 4(9), to exercise their licensing powers in the manner they consider best calculated to promote the provision of such services, and the duty, under section 5, to select licensees to provide such services following advertisement and public consultation. By virtue of section 2(3) a “prescribed diffusion service” means a diffusion service of such description as the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Cable Authority, may by order prescribe.\nThis Order, which revokes the Cable (Prescribed Diffusion Service) Order 1986, describes “prescribed diffusion service” for the purpose of services provided over systems first licensed after 1st July 1986 as a diffusion service in which sound and television programmes are provided to 10,000 or more dwelling houses. For the purpose of services provided over systems first licensed before that date a prescribed diffusion service is a diffusion service in which sound and television programmes are relayed direct to the home by means of a wide band cable system capable of carrying at least 16 video channels simultaneously.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1309/note",
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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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