Legislation – Media Act 2024
Schedules
Schedule 2Part 1: further amendments
Communications Act 2003
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(1)
Section 353 (changes of control of Channel 5) is amended as follows.
(2)
In subsection (4)—
(a)
omit paragraph (a)(i);
(b)
after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)
the extent to which the qualifying audiovisual content made available by the provider of Channel 5 includes a range of original productions and the duration (in total) of those productions;”;
(c)
in paragraph (b), for “programmes of each of those descriptions” substitute “news programmes, current affairs programmes and original productions”
.
(3)
In subsection (5)—
(a)
for paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)
the extent to which the qualifying audiovisual content made in the United Kingdom that is made available by the provider of Channel 5 includes a range of programmes made outside the M25 area and the duration (in total) of those programmes;”;
(b)
omit paragraph (b).