Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007

Amendments to section 16 of Act of 2001.

13.— Section 16 of the Act of 2001 is hereby amended—

(a) in subsection (7) by the substitution for “transmitted by the transmission company pursuant to arrangements under section 14(1) and” of “included as part of a multiplex, within the meaning of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007, and transmitted by”, and

(b) by the substitution for subsection (9) of the following subsection:

“(9) The Commission may give a direction to—

(a) a multiplex contractor, within the meaning of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Act 2007, requiring that contractor to include as part of a television multiplex, within the meaning of that Act, the electronic programme guide or guides prepared under the programme guide contract referred to in subsection (8), and

(b) each holder of a licence referred to in section 37(1) requiring him or her to transmit the said guide or guides,

and the said contractor and each such holder shall comply with such a direction.”.