Broadcasting Act, 2001

Application of certain enactments to digital and other broadcasting services.

18.—The following provisions of the Act of 1988, namely—

(a) paragraphs (a), (b), (d) and (e) of subsection (1), and subsection (2), of section 9, and

(b) section 10(3),

shall apply to a broadcasting service which consists of a compilation of programme material supplied pursuant to a contract entered into under this Act with the following and any other necessary modifications—

(i) references in those provisions to a sound broadcasting contractor shall be construed as references to the holder of the contract concerned,

(ii) references in those provisions to any thing being broadcast shall be construed as references to the thing being supplied pursuant to a contract entered into under this Act for the purpose of its being transmitted as part of a broadcasting service, and

(iii) paragraph (d) of the said section 9(1) shall have effect as if the words “as offending against good taste or decency, or” were omitted.