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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-broadcasting-regional-programme-making-and-original-productions-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348275377",
  "legislation_title": "The Broadcasting (Regional Programme-making and Original Productions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-broadcasting-regional-programme-making-and-original-productions-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations create new provisions in relation to quotas for regional programme-making and amend the Broadcasting (Original Productions) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1652) (“the 2004 Order”) in order to implement provisions set out in the Media Act 2024 (c. 15) (“the 2024 Act”) relating to programme-making quotas for original and regional productions for Channels 3, 4 and 5, and for S4C.\nRegulation 2 confers functions on OFCOM in relation to regional programme-making quotas in relation to whether content already made available in the same or substantially the same form (“repeats”) may be counted towards meeting a programme-making quota.\nParagraph (2) of regulation 3 amends the definition of “original productions” for the purposes of section 278 of the Communication Act 2003 (c. 21) (programming quotas for original productions) in article 3 of the 2004 Order, in order to take account of changes made by the 2024 Act.\nParagraphs (3) and (5) of regulation 3 insert two new articles into the 2004 Order. These require OFCOM to determine whether “repeats” may be counted towards meeting an original production quota of a licensed public service channel or S4C, respectively. These new articles also confer further functions on OFCOM regarding how such a determination is made.\nParagraph (4) of regulation 3 amends the definition of “original productions” for the purposes of paragraph 8 of Schedule 12 to the Communications Act 2003 (programme quotas for original productions: S4C) in article 4 of the 2004 Order, in order to take account of changes made by the 2024 Act, and replaces references to “the Welsh Authority” with references to S4C.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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