The Broadcasting (Channel 3 Transmission and Shared Distribution Costs) Order 1996

Made: 6th December 1996

Laid before Parliament: 6th December 1996

Coming into force: 27th December 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 66(3) of the Broadcasting Act 1990[^f00001], hereby makes the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Broadcasting (Channel 3 Transmission and Shared Distribution Costs) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 27th December 1996.

2

The period specified in the Broadcasting (Channel 3 Transmission and Shared Distribution Costs) Order 1991[^f00002] during which—

• (a) all Channel 3 services are required to be broadcast for general reception by a single person under arrangements made with him by the persons licensed to provide those services; and

• (b) all persons licensed to provide Channel 3 services are required to share the costs incurred in respect of the distribution of those services (taken as a whole) in such manner as may be approved by her,

shall be extended by a period of six years so as to end on 31st December 2002.

Signed

Virginia Bottomley — Secretary of State for National Heritage — 6th December 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends by six years the period during which all Channel 3 services must be broadcast by a single person, which is also that during which all Channel 3 licensees must share the distribution costs of those services in such manner as may be approved by the Secretary of State.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 42.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/881.