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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-12/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of S4C—\n(a) in respect of every programme included in any of their public television services, to retain a recording of the programme in the form, and for the period, specified by OFCOM;\n(b) to comply with any request to produce such recordings to OFCOM for examination or reproduction; and\n(c) to comply, to the extent that they are able to do so, with any request to produce to OFCOM a script or transcript of a programme included in any of their public television services.\n(2) The period specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(a) must be a period not exceeding ninety days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 12 para. 20(1) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 67; S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 20 in force at 29.12.2003 by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/schedule/12/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:16.154105+00:00"
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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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