{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110482107",
  "legislation_title": "The Media Ownership (Local Radio and Appointed News Provider) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Restriction on holding of local radio multiplex licence: meaning of “potential audience”",
  "text": "(1) In Part 2 of Schedule 14 to the 2003 Act, paragraph 8 (restriction on holding of local radio multiplex licences) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), for “coverage area”, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted “protected area”.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) is hereby repealed.\n(4) After sub-paragraph (5) there shall be added—\n“(6) In this paragraph, in relation to a local radio multiplex service—\n“potential audience” means the persons who have attained the age of 15 years and reside within the protected area for that multiplex service; and\n“the protected area” means—\n(a) subject to paragraph (b), the area or locality specified in a notice published under section 50(1) of the 1996 Act as that in which that multiplex service is to be available; or\n(b) if different from that area or locality, the area or locality specified in the relevant licence as that in which that multiplex service is to be available.\n(7) In sub-paragraph (6), “the relevant licence” means the local radio multiplex licence under which the multiplex service concerned is authorised to be provided.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110482107/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:24:50.294952+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}