{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-216A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-216A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "section/216A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "216A",
  "heading": "Renewal of Channel 3 licences: determination of licence areas",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if OFCOM decide under section 216(4) to renew a licence to provide a Channel 3 service.\n(2) The area determined under section 216(4A)(a) for the licence—\n(a) must include all or part of the area to which the licence being renewed currently relates, and\n(b) may include all or part of another area if the holder of the licence to provide a Channel 3 service for the other area gives (and does not withdraw) consent before the determination is made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 216A inserted (8.6.2010) by Digital Economy Act 2010 (c. 24), ss. 24(7), 47(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/216A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:16.154105+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}