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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/television-multiplex-services-reservation-of-digital-capacity-order-2008/article-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1420",
  "legislation_title": "The Television Multiplex Services (Reservation of Digital Capacity) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/television-multiplex-services-reservation-of-digital-capacity-order-2008",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Variation of the Multiplex A licence: Channel 5 services",
  "text": "(1) If, but only if, OFCOM reserve digital capacity on Multiplex 2 for the holder of a licence to provide Channel 5 as mentioned in article 8(3)(c), they must also vary the Multiplex A licence in accordance with this article.\n(2) OFCOM must vary the Multiplex A licence so that, as from the time when the variations reserving capacity on Multiplex 2 for the holder of a licence to provide Channel 5 take effect, the Multiplex A licence includes such conditions as OFCOM consider appropriate for securing that its holder reserves for the holder of a licence to provide Channel 5 digital capacity equivalent to—\n(a) 50 per cent. of the digital capacity available on the frequencies on which Multiplex A is broadcast, throughout the British Islands, less\n(b) digital capacity sufficient for the broadcasting (as a standard definition television service) of Channel 5, throughout the British Islands.\n(3) At any time when there is digital capacity on Multiplex A reserved for Channel 5 services—\n(a) the holder of a licence to provide Channel 5, or\n(b) the holder of the Multiplex A licence,\nor both of them, may refer to OFCOM for determination any question arising as to the amount of digital capacity which is sufficient for the broadcasting of Channel 5 as a standard definition television service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1420/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:30:29.697759+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."
}