{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Connected persons",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of this Order—\n(a) any person connected with a person who holds a licence shall be treated as if he also were a holder of that licence, and\n(b) any person connected with a person who provides a local digital sound programme service shall be treated as if he also were providing that service,\nand references to a person becoming the holder of a licence, or beginning to provide a service, shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) References in this article to a person being connected with any other person shall be construed in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act.\n(3) But a person shall not be treated as holding a local sound broadcasting licence or a local digital sound programme licence, or providing a local digital sound programme service, merely because he is the director of a body corporate which holds the licence or (as the case may be) provides the service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act was amended by paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, and Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the 1996 Act, and by section 357(1) of, paragraph 69(1) to (3) of Schedule 15 to, and Schedule 19 to, the 2003 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110482107/article/3",
    "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."
}