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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-wireless-telegraphy-act-2006-directions-to-ofcom-order-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111518229",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (Directions to OFCOM) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-wireless-telegraphy-act-2006-directions-to-ofcom-order-2012",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“ancillary service” has the meaning given in section 24(2) of the Broadcasting Act 1996;\n“broadcasting channel” means one of the frequency bands listed in column 2 of Table 1 in the Schedule and which is commonly known and referred to by the broadcasting channel number which is listed opposite that frequency band in column 1 of that Table;\n“local digital television programme service” has the meaning given in article 3 of the Local Digital Television Programme Services Order 2012;\n“MHz” means megahertz;\n“multiplex licence” means a multiplex licence awarded by OFCOM for a local multiplex service pursuant to section 8 of the Broadcasting Act 1996 as it has effect as modified by Article 4 of, and the Schedule to, the Local Digital Television Programme Services Order 2012;\n“multiplex licensee” means the holder of a multiplex licence;\n“standard definition television service” means a digital television programme service, as defined in section 362(1) of the Communications Act 2003, which is broadcast in a format designed to display the images comprising a television programme by employing 576 active lines of pixels per frame.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.55. Section 24(2) was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c.21), s 360(3), Sch 15, Pt 2, para 93(1) and (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "[S.I. number to be inserted here once issued by SI Registrar]."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 8 was amended by the Communications Act 2003 (c.21), s 360(3), Sch 15, Pt 2, para 80(1) to (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2003 c.21."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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