{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/television-licences-disclosure-of-information-act-2000/section-5",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/15",
  "legislation_title": "Television Licences (Disclosure of Information) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/television-licences-disclosure-of-information-act-2000",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the BBC” means the British Broadcasting Corporation;\n“the Northern Ireland department” means the Department for Social Development;\n“prescribed” means prescribed by order made by the Secretary of State;\n“television licence” means a licence for the purposes of section 363 of the Communications Act 2003;\n“war pensions” has the same meaning as in section 25 of the Social Security Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (1.4.2004) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 159(a) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, Sch. 2 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 inserted (1.4.2004) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 159(b) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, Sch. 2 (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1989 c. 24."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2023/48",
      "affecting_title": "Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Act 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/15/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:03.385690+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."
}