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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-368HO",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003/section-368HO.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/21",
  "legislation_title": "Communications Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003",
  "path": "section/368HO",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "368HO",
  "heading": "Tier 1 accessibility code: procedural requirements",
  "text": "(1) Before publishing a code or a revised code under section 368HL, OFCOM must consult—\n(a) such persons appearing to OFCOM to represent the interests of people with disabilities as OFCOM think fit;\n(b) such persons providing on-demand programme services or non-UK on-demand programme services as OFCOM think fit; and\n(c) such other persons as appear to OFCOM to have an interest in the content of the code.\n(2) For the purposes of the consultation, OFCOM must publish a draft of the code.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4A inserted (19.12.2009) by Audiovisual Media Services Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2979), regs. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. 4A Ch. 3 inserted (23.8.2024) by Media Act 2024 (c. 15), s. 55(3)(d), Sch. 5; S.I. 2024/858, reg. 2(1)(y)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/368HO",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:08:53.877248+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."
  }
}