{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/media-act-2024-commencement-no-3-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1049",
  "legislation_title": "The Media Act 2024 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/media-act-2024-commencement-no-3-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions of the 2024 Act coming into force on 1st January 2026",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2024 Act come into force on 1st January 2026—\n(a) section 1 (reports on the fulfilment of the public service remit), so far as not already in force;\n(b) section 2 (OFCOM reports: wider review and reporting obligations);\n(c) section 3 (public service remits of licensed providers), so far as not already in force;\n(d) section 4 (statements of programme policy), so far as not already in force;\n(e) section 5 (changes of programme policy), so far as not already in force;\n(f) section 6 (enforcement of public service remits);\n(g) section 7 (power to amend public service remit for television in the United Kingdom);\n(h) section 8 (quotas: independent productions), so far as not already in force;\n(i) section 9 (quotas: original productions), so far as not already in force;\n(j) section 10 (power to create additional quotas for qualifying audiovisual content);\n(k) section 11 (quotas: meaning of “qualifying audiovisual content” etc), so far as not already in force;\n(l) section 12 (quotas: further provision about their fulfilment), so far as not already in force;\n(m) section 13 (quotas: independent productions: commissioning code), so far as not already in force;\n(n) section 14 (regional programme-making: Channels 3, 4 and 5), so far as not already in force;\n(o) section 15 (networking arrangements for Channel 3), so far as not already in force;\n(p) section 17 (quotas: the BBC and S4C), so far as not already in force;\n(q) section 19 (amount of financial penalties: qualifying revenue), so far as not already in force;\n(r) section 32 (S4C’s powers and public service remit);\n(s) Schedule 1 (quotas: the BBC and S4C), so far as not already in force;\n(t) paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 (part 1: further amendments), so far as not already in force;\n(u) paragraphs 25, 26, 32(2), 36(2), 58, 59, 60(2) and 61(b) and (c) of Schedule 2;\n(v) Schedule 4 (Chapter 2 of Part 3: minor and consequential amendments), so far as not already in force, and except—\n(i) sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 23; and\n(ii) paragraphs 53 and 54.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 4 of S.I. 2024/858 (C. 55) provides that certain provisions of Schedule 4 come into force on the date that certain provisions of the Communication Act 2003 (c. 21) come into force."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1049/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:14.658613+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."
}