The regulatory regime for—
includes the conditions that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing the three objectives set out in this section (so far as they are not secured by provision made under section 243).
The first objective is that the channel or other service, so far as it is provided in digital form, is at all times offered as available (subject to the need to agree terms) to be broadcast or distributed by means of every appropriate network.
The second objective is that the person providing the channel or other service does his best to secure that arrangements are entered into, and kept in force, that ensure—
The third objective is that the arrangements entered into and kept in force for the purpose of securing the second objective prohibit the imposition, for or in connection with the provision of an appropriate network, of any charge that is attributable (whether directly or indirectly) to the conferring of an entitlement to receive the channel or other service in question in an intelligible form by means of that network.
The three objectives apply only in relation to times when the channel or other service in its digital form is included in the list of must-carry services in section 64.
Conditions imposed under this section in relation to a channel or other service must, to such extent as OFCOM consider appropriate—
In this section—
For the purposes of this section an electronic communications network is not an appropriate network in relation to so much of a channel or other service as is provided only for a particular area or locality of the United Kingdom unless it is a network by means of which electronic communications services are provided to persons in that area or locality
In subsection (7) "public electronic communications service" and "end-user" each has the same meaning as in Part 2.
An order under section 411 must not appoint a day for provisions of this section to come into force that falls less than six months after the day on which the order is made.