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These effects are included in this view as they may be (but won’t necessarily be) relevant to the specific provision that you are viewing.Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3195 by S.I. 2004/715 art. 3 Sch.Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3195 art. 6 Sch. 2 by S.I. 2004/1116 art. 2Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3197 by S.I. 2004/308 art. 6(3) Sch. 2Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3197 by S.I. 2004/716 art. 3Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3197 art. 6 Sch. 2 by S.I. 2004/1114 art. 2Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3198 by S.I. 2004/309 art. 2(2) Sch. Pt. 2Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3198 by S.I. 2004/718 art. 2Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3198 art. 6 Sch. 2 by S.I. 2007/278 art. 3 Sch. 2 Pt. 1Act amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2003/3198 art. 6(1) by S.I. 2004/1115 art. 2Act applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2004/1944 art. 4 Sch.Act modified by S.I. 2007/1118 art. 7Act specified provisions extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) by S.I. 2003/3195 art. 6 Sch. 2 (This SI is amended by SI 2004/307, 2004/715, 2004/1116, 2005/856)Act specified provisions extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) by S.I. 2004/307 art. 4 Sch.Act specified provisions extended (Isle of Man) (with modifications) by S.I. 2003/3198 art. 6 Sch. 2 (This SI is amended by SI 2004/309, 2004/718, 2004/1115, 2007/278)Act specified provisions extended (Jersey) (with modifications) by S.I. 2003/3197 art. 6 Sch. 2 (This SI is amended by SI 2004/308, 2004/716, 2004/1114, 2005/855)Act specified provisions extended (Jersey) (with modifications) by S.I. 2004/308 art. 4 Sch. 1Blanket amendment words substituted by S.I. 2011/1043 art. 3 4Blanket amendment words substituted by S.I. 2011/1043 art. 3 6Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):Pt. 4A inserted by S.I. 2009/2979 reg. 2s. 4A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 6s. 35A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 11s. 48A-48C inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 23s. 49A-49C inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 25s. 56A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 31s. 76A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 41s. 80A 80B inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 43s. 84A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 47s. 89A 89B 89C inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 50s. 96A-96C inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 55s. 100A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 60s. 105A-105D inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 65s. 110A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 69s. 111A 111B inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 71s. 120A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 77s. 124A and cross-heading inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 3s. 124B inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 4s. 124C inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 5s. 124D inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 6s. 124E inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 7s. 124F inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 8s. 124G inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 9s. 124H inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 10s. 124I inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 11s. 124J inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 12s. 124K inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 13s. 124L inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 14s. 124M inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 15s. 124N inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 16(1)s. 124O and cross-heading inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 19s. 124P 124Q inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 20(1)s. 124R inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 21s. 134A-134C and cross-heading inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 1(1)s. 139A-139C inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 83s. 146A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 88s. 150A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 89s. 185A inserted by S.I. 2011/1210 Sch. 1 para. 92s. 198A inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 22(1)s. 198B-198D inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 23(1)s. 216A inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 24(7)s. 218A inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 27s. 264A inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 2s. 271A inserted by 2010 c. 24 s. 23(2)s. 335A inserted by S.I. 2009/2979 reg. 7s. 335A(1)(a) text amended by S.I. 2010/1883 reg. 4s. 368B(1) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 3(1)s. 368B(6) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 3(2)s. 368D(3)(za)(zb) inserted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 5(1)s. 368D(3A) inserted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 5(2)s. 368G(2) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 6s. 368H(16) text amended by S.I. 2010/831 reg. 7s. 368J(1) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 7s. 368K(1)(a) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 8(2)s. 368K(1)(b) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 8(3)s. 368O(2)(a) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 10s. 368P(A1) inserted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 11(a)s. 368P(1) substituted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 11(b)s. 368P(2)(b)(c) omitted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 11(c)s. 368Q(A1) inserted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 12(1)s. 368Q(4) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 12(2)s. 368Q(5) text amended by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 12(3)s. 368R(1) text amended by S.I. 2010/831 reg. 8s. 368R(1) words substituted by S.I. 2012/1916 Sch. 34 para. 44s. 368BA 368BB inserted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 4s. 368NA inserted by S.I. 2010/419 reg. 9Sch .17 para. 18 Coming into force by S.I. 2003/3142 art. 3(2) (Provisions in art. 3(2)listed in SI 2003/1900 Sch. 2)Sch .17 para. 149 Coming into force by S.I. 2003/3142 art. 3(2) (Provisions in art. 3(2)listed in SI 2003/1900 Sch. 2)Sch. 11A inserted by S.I. 2010/831 reg. 9Commencement Orders yet to be applied to the Communications Act 2003:Commencement OrdersThis section lists the commencement orders yet to be applied to the whole Act. These effects are included in this view as they may be (but won’t necessarily be) relevant to the specific provision that you are viewing. Where applicable the commencement orders are listed under two headings, firstly those that bring some part of the Act you are viewing into force and secondly, those that bring into force legislation that affects some part of the legislation you are viewing. If you are viewing a prospective version or there is a prospective version available there may be commencement orders listed here that are relevant to the provision you are viewing.Commencement Orders bringing provisions within this Act into force:S.I. 2003/1900 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 21)S.I. 2003/3142 art. 2-4 commences (2002 c. 11 and 2003 c. 21)S.I. 2004/3309 art. 2 3 commences (2003 c. 21)S.I. 2009/2130 art. 2 commences (2003 c. 21)Commencement Orders bringing legislation that affects this Act into force:S.I. 2003/3142 art. 3(1) Sch. 1 commences (2003 c. 21)S.I. 2004/2575 art. 2 Sch. 1 2 commences (2004 c. 20)S.I. 2005/3495 art. 2 commences (2005 c. 15)S.I. 2007/2584 art. 2 commences (2006 c. 26)S.I. 2007/3546 art. 3 Sch. commences (2007 c. 17)S.I. 2008/3068 art. 2-5 commences (2008 c. 17)S.I. 2009/803 art. 1(2) 10 commences (2008 c. 17)S.I. 2009/812 art. 3(a)(b) commences (2006 c. 52)S.I. 2009/1167 art. 3 4 commences (2006 c. 52)S.I. 2010/862 art. 3 commences (2008 c. 17)S.I. 2010/2317 art. 2 3 commences (2010 c. 15)S.I. 2011/2329 art. 3 commences (2011 c. 5)S.I. 2012/1662 art. 2(2)(b) commences (2011 c. 24)The Welsh AuthorityE+W+S+N.I.203Function of OFCOM in relation to the Welsh AuthorityE+W+S+N.I.It shall be a function of OFCOM, to the extent that provision for them to do so is contained in this Act and Part 5 of the 1996 Act, to regulate the services provided by the Welsh Authority.
204Welsh Authority’s function of providing S4C and S4C DigitalE+W+S+N.I.(1)The Welsh Authority shall continue in existence with the substitution of the following function for their functions under section 57 of the 1990 Act.
(2)The Welsh Authority shall have the function of providing television programme services of high quality with a view to their being available for reception wholly or mainly by members of the public in Wales.
(3)The carrying out of that function—
(a)must include the continuing provision of the television broadcasting service known as Sianel Pedwar Cymru (“S4C”); and
(b)may include the continuing provision of the service provided in digital form and known as S4C Digital.
(4)The power of the Welsh Authority to provide S4C Digital includes a power to secure that arrangements are made and remain in force for it to be broadcast in digital form.
(5)It shall be the duty of the Welsh Authority to secure that S4C and S4C Digital each represents a public service for the dissemination of information, education and entertainment.
(6)The Welsh Authority may use part of the signals carrying S4C to provide—
(a)subtitling in relation to programmes included in the service; and
(b)other services which are ancillary to programmes included in S4C and which are directly related to their contents.
(7)In providing S4C Digital the Welsh Authority may also provide—
(a)assistance for disabled people in relation to programmes included in the service; and
(b)any other service (other than one mentioned in paragraph (a)) which is an ancillary service in relation to S4C Digital.
(8)The Secretary of State may by order modify this Act and such other enactments as he thinks fit for the purpose of—
(a)replacing the requirement of the Welsh Authority to provide S4C with a requirement to provide a service in digital form;
(b)requiring the Welsh Authority to secure that arrangements are made for that service and S4C Digital to be merged and provided as one service (also to be known as “S4C Digital”); and
(c)applying enactments relating to the provision of S4C or S4C Digital to the provision of the merged service.
(9)An order under subsection (8) may require the Welsh Authority to ensure that, from the coming into force of a requirement to provide a merged service in digital form until a time determined in the manner described in the order, the whole or a part of the merged service is also to be provided for broadcasting in analogue form.
(10)In this section “programme” does not include an advertisement.
205Powers to provide other servicesE+W+S+N.I.(1)The Welsh Authority are not, in the carrying out of their function under section 204, to provide any television programme service (apart from S4C and S4C Digital) unless—
(a)the service appears to them to satisfy the requirements of subsection (3); and
(b)the provision by them of the service has been approved by an order made by the Secretary of State.
(2)The functions of the Welsh Authority include the provision of services that are neither television programme services nor sound services but—
(a)are provided with a view to being made available for reception wholly or mainly by members of the public in Wales or otherwise to be received or used by persons in Wales;
(b)are services appearing to them to satisfy the requirements of subsection (3); and
(c)are services the provision of which by the Authority has been approved by an order made by the Secretary of State.
(3)A service provided under this section must be a public service of high quality for the dissemination of information, education or entertainment (or a combination of them) wholly or mainly to members of the public in Wales.
(4)The Welsh Authority are not to provide a television programme service under this section unless it is one the provision of which by them broadens the range of television programme services available for reception by members of the public in Wales.
(5)The Welsh Authority must ensure, in the case of every television programme service provided with the approval of the Secretary of State under this section, that a substantial proportion of the programmes included in the service consists of programmes in Welsh.
(6)An order under this section approving the provision of a service must set out—
(a)the nature and other characteristics of the service that is approved; and
(b)in the case of a service that is a television programme service, a public service remit for that service.
(7)In providing a service approved under this section the Welsh Authority may also provide—
(a)assistance for disabled people in relation to programmes included in the service;
(b)other services which are ancillary to programmes included in the service and which are directly related to their contents; and
(c)any other service (other than one mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b)) which is an ancillary service in relation to so much of the service as is provided in digital form.
(8)A television programme service provided under this section in digital form is a qualifying service for the purposes of the 1996 Act.
(9)In this section “sound service” means a service which would fall to be regulated under section 245 if provided by an S4C company.
206Other activities of Welsh AuthorityE+W+S+N.I.(1)The activities that the Welsh Authority are able to carry on include activities which appear to them—
(a)to be activities that it is appropriate for them to carry on in association with the carrying out of their function of providing S4C, S4C Digital or a service the provision of which is approved under section 205; and
(b)to be connected, otherwise than merely in financial terms, with activities undertaken by them for the carrying out of that function.
(2)The approval of the Secretary of State is required for the carrying on by the Welsh Authority of activities authorised only by subsection (1).
(3)The approval of the Secretary of State—
(a)must be contained in an order made by him; and
(b)may be a general approval in relation to a description of activities or a specific approval in relation to particular activities.
(4)The activities capable of being authorised under subsection (1)—
(a)do not include the provision of a licensable service; but
(b)do include activities for securing the provision of such a service by an S4C company and other activities connected with the provision of such a service by such a company.
(5)The activities referred to in subsection (4)(b) include—
(a)the formation of a company to provide a programme service;
(b)the taking of steps by means of which a company that is providing such a service becomes an S4C company.
(6)For sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the 1990 Act (power of Welsh Authority to do things incidental or conducive to the carrying out of their functions) there shall be substituted—
“(2)The Authority may do anything which appears to them to be incidental or conducive to the carrying out of their functions.
(3)The powers of the Authority under sub-paragraph (2) include power, to the extent that it appears to them incidental or conducive to the carrying out of their functions to do so—
(a)to carry on activities (other than those comprised in their duty to carry out their functions under section 204 of the Communications Act 2003) through S4C companies; and
(b)to participate with others in the carrying on of any such activities.”
(7)In this section “licensable service” means a service that would fall to be regulated under section 211 or 245 if provided by an S4C company.
(8)Section 57(1A)(b) and (1B) of the 1990 Act (power of Welsh Authority to establish, acquire an interest in or assist a qualifying company) shall cease to have effect.
207Welsh Authority financesE+W+S+N.I.(1)The Welsh Authority must not, whether directly or indirectly, impose charges on persons—
by order ”.
(a)in subsection (2) (application of fund), for “their functions under section 57(1) or (1A)(a)” there shall be substituted “ their functions in relation to the provision of the services that are public services of the Authority (within the meaning of section 207 of the Communications Act 2003). ”; and
(b)in subsection (4) (programmes to be broadcast first on S4C or S4C Digital), for the words from “on S4C” onwards there shall be substituted “ on a television programme service that is one of their public services (within the meaning of section 207 of the Communications Act 2003) ”.