LegalizeThe Foreign Satellite Service Proscription Order 1996
Made: 10th October 1996
Laid before Parliament: 10th October 1996
Coming into force: 31st October 1996
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990, hereby makes the following Order:
1
This Order may be cited as the Foreign Satellite Service Proscription Order 1996 and shall come into force on 31st October 1996.
2
The foreign satellite service which at the date of making this Order is known as Rendez-Vous is hereby proscribed for the purposes of section 178 of the Broadcasting Act 1990.
Signed
Virginia Bottomley — Secretary of State for National Heritage — 10th October 1996
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 empowers the Secretary of State to make orders proscribing unacceptable foreign satellite services for the purposes of section 178 of that Act. This Order proscribes the foreign satellite service known as Rendez-Vous. Section 178 provides that various acts in support of a proscribed service shall be criminal offences.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1990 c. 42.
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