Section 291: Obligation as to making and continuance of approved arrangements

Communications Act 2003 · 2003 c. 21View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 3: Television and Radio Services ETC — Chapter 4: Regulatory provisions

The regulatory regime for every regional Channel 3 service includes the conditions that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing that the licence holder does all that he can to ensure that approved networking arrangements are in force whenever—

the licence holder is providing the licensed service; and
no networking arrangements imposed by OFCOM under section 292 are in force.

In this section "approved networking arrangements" means networking arrangements which are for the time being approved by OFCOM in accordance with Schedule 11.

In paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to the Competition Act 1998 (c. 41) (exclusion of networking arrangements from Chapter I prohibition), for sub-paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

For sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph there shall be substituted—

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