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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-community-radio-order-2025/article-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348266900",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Radio Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-community-radio-order-2025",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Disqualified persons",
  "text": "(1) In addition to the modifications made by article 4 of, and the Schedule to, this Order, Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act (disqualifications for holding licences) has effect in relation to community radio licences as if the persons who are disqualified persons by virtue of that Part of that Schedule included, in relation to such licences, any person falling within paragraph (2).\n(2) Those persons are—\n(a) any person who is not a body corporate,\n(b) any body corporate falling within paragraph (3), and\n(c) any C4 company or S4C company that would not otherwise be a disqualified person by virtue of paragraph (3).\n(3) A body corporate falls within this paragraph if—\n(a) that body holds at least one relevant Broadcasting Act licence, or\n(b) that body is connected with a person who holds one or more such licences.\n(4) In this article, a relevant Broadcasting Act licence is a Broadcasting Act licence which is not a licence to provide one of the following services—\n(a) a community radio service;\n(b) a digital sound programme service;\n(c) a restricted service;\n(d) a radio licensable content service;\n(e) a restricted television service;\n(f) a television licensable content service;\n(g) a local digital television programme service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "In Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1990, paragraph 1(1) was amended by paragraph 6(2) of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1996 and by section 349(1)(a) of, and paragraph 69(4) and (5) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 to, the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 1(1) was also repealed in part by sections 348(1) of, and Schedule 19(1) to, the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 1(1A) was inserted by section 349(1)(b) of the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 1(2) and (3) were repealed by Schedule 19(1) to the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 2 was amended by section 348(2) and (3) of the Communications Act 2003 and by paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Media Act 2024 (c. 15). Paragraph 3(1) was amended by paragraph 7 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1996, paragraph 69(6) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Communications Act 2003 and paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to the Media Act 2024. Paragraph 4(1) was amended by paragraph 69(4) and (7) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 4(2) was amended by sections 348(4) of, and paragraph 69(8)(a) and (b) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 to, the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 5 was repealed in part by paragraph 8 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 and Part 1 of Schedule 11 to the Broadcasting Act 1996 and was amended by paragraph 69(4) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Communications Act 2003 and by paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to the Media Act 2024. Paragraph 5A was inserted by paragraph 9 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Broadcasting Act 1996 and was repealed in part by paragraph 69(9) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 and Schedule 19(1) to the Communications Act 2003. Paragraph 6 was amended by paragraph 69(4) of Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Communications Act 2003."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“C4 company” and “S4C company” are defined in section 362(1) of the Communications Act 2003. The definition of “S4C company” was amended by paragraph 45(2) of Schedule 4 to the Media Act 2024."
    }
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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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