{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-15/paragraph-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-15/paragraph-79.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/79",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 7 of the 1996 Act (multiplex licences) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For “the Commission” and “The Commission”, wherever occurring, there shall be substituted “ OFCOM ”.\n(3) In subsection (4)—\n(a) after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted—\n“(ca) the applicant’s proposals as to the number (if any) of digital sound programmes services which are to be broadcast, as to the characteristics of each of those services and as to the areas in which they would be provided;”\n(b) in paragraph (d) for “those services” there shall be substituted “ the services mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (ca) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 79 in force at 29.12.2003 by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/schedule/15/paragraph/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:16.154105+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."
}