F5OFCOM shall, for the financial year which includes the commencement of this section and each subsequent financial year, determine an aggregate amount which they consider it would be appropriate for the holders of Channel 3 F1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 licences to contribute, in accordance with this section, towards the expenses incurred by the nominated body in connection with the maintenance by it of a national television archive.

A Channel 3 F2, Channel 4 or Channel 5 licence shall include conditions requiring the licence holder to pay to F5OFCOM , in respect of each of the financial years mentioned in subsection (1), such amount as they may notify to him for the purposes of this section, being such proportion of the aggregate amount determined for that year under that subsection as they consider appropriate (and different proportions may be determined in relation to different persons).

Any amount received by F5OFCOM by virtue of subsection (3) shall be transmitted by them to the nominated body.

In this section—

• F4...

• “Channel 3 licence” and “Channel 5 licence” have the same meaning as in Part I of this Act.

• F3“Channel 4 licence” means—

  1. a

     the licence referred to in section 231(1)(b) of the Communications Act 2003; and

  2. b

     a licence renewing that licence on the first or any subsequent occasion.