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Broadcasting Act 1996

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29The S4C digital service

(1)If the Welsh Authority provide S4C Digital, it shall be their duty—

(a)to provide it as a public service for disseminating information, education and entertainment,

(b)to ensure that all the programmes in Welsh which are broadcast on S4C are broadcast on S4C Digital at the same time, and

(c)to ensure that the programmes which are broadcast on S4C Digital but not on S4C maintain—

(i)a high general standard in all respects (and, in particular, in respect of their content and quality), and

(ii)a wide range in their subject matter, having regard both to the programmes as a whole and also to the days of the week on which, and the times of the day at which, the programmes are broadcast.

(2)Sections 57(4), 58(5), 59, 60 and 64 of the 1990 Act shall apply in relation to S4C Digital as they apply in relation to S4C.

(3)No payment shall be required by the BBC in respect of the broadcasting pursuant to subsection (1)(b) of programmes provided by them under section 58(1) of the 1990 Act.

(4)In this section “programme” does not include an advertisement.

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