{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-18/paragraph-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/schedule-18/paragraph-43.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/18/paragraph/43",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In relation to any time after the commencement of section 319 of this Act, a code in force immediately before its commencement as a code drawn up under section 6, 7, 9, 90, 91 or 93 of the 1990 Act or section 108 of the 1996 Act is to have effect (subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)) as if it were a code issued by OFCOM for the purpose of setting standards under section 319 of this Act.\n(2) A code under the 1990 Act shall have effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) in relation only to the following—\n(a) in the case of the codes under sections 6, 7 and 9, services the provision of which is authorised by licences under Part 1 of the 1990 Act and S4C; and\n(b) in the case of the codes under sections 90, 91 and 93, services the provision of which is authorised by licences under Part 3 of that Act.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 43(3) omitted (1.1.2026) by virtue of Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 72; S.I. 2025/1049, reg. 3(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 18 para. 43 in force at 29.12.2003 by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)"
    }
  ],
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    "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."
}