# The Media Ownership (Local Radio and Appointed News Provider) Order 2003, Article 3: Connected persons


(1) For the purposes of this Order—
(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
(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,
and references to a person becoming the holder of a licence, or beginning to provide a service, shall be construed accordingly.
(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.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2003/0110482107/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-3
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