{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-media-ownership-local-radio-and-appointed-news-provider-order-2003/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Prohibition on holding a local sound broadcasting licence, holding a Channel 3 licence, and running a local newspaper",
  "text": "No one person may at the same time—\n(a) hold a local sound broadcasting licence (“the licence in question”); and\n(b) hold the licence to provide any regional Channel 3 service the potential audience of which includes at least 50 per cent. of the potential audience of the service provided under the licence in question; and\n(c) run—\n(i) a local newspaper which has a local market share of 50 per cent. or more in the coverage area for the service provided under the licence in question, or\n(ii) local newspapers which together have a local market share of 50 per cent. or more in that coverage area.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}