Broadcasting Act 1996

52 Power to require two or more local radio multiplex licences to be granted to one person.U.K.

(1)[F1OFCOM] may, before publishing a notice under section 50(2), determine that two or more local radio multiplex licences are on that occasion to be granted to one person.

(2)Where [F1OFCOM] have so determined, they shall publish a single notice under section 50(2) in relation to the licences.

(3)In relation to any application made in pursuance of such a notice—

(a)references in section 50(4) and 51(2) to the proposed service shall have effect as references to each of the proposed services, and

(b)the reference in section 51(1) to the local radio multiplex licence shall have effect as a reference to all the licences concerned.

(4)Nothing in this section applies in relation to the renewal of a local radio multiplex licence.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 52 substituted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 15 para. 111 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 11)