{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-343",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-343.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "section/343",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "343",
  "heading": "Provision of information by S4C",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of S4C to comply with every direction given to them by OFCOM to provide OFCOM with information falling within subsection (2).\n(2) The information that S4C may be directed to provide is any information which OFCOM may reasonably require for the purposes of carrying out their functions in relation to S4C under this Act, the 1990 Act or the 1996 Act.\n(3) Information that is required to be provided by a direction under this section must be provided in such manner and at such times as may be required by the direction.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 343(1) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 43(2); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 343(2) substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 43(2); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 343 heading substituted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(c), Sch. 4 para. 43(3); S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 343 modified (20.7.2004) by Contracting Out (Functions relating to Broadcast Advertising) and Specification of Relevant Functions Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1975), arts. 1, 10(1)(b) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 343 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/section/343",
    "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."
  }
}