1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Media Ownership (Local Radio and Appointed News Provider) Order 2003.
(2) This Order comes into force on 29th December 2003.
2.—(1) In this Order—
“the 1990 Act” means the Broadcasting Act 1990(1);
“the 1996 Act” means the Broadcasting Act 1996(2); and
“the 2003 Act” means the Communications Act 2003.
(2) Expressions used in this Order and in Part 3 of the 2003 Act have the same meanings in this Order as they have in that Part.
3.—(1) For the purposes of this Order—
(a)any person connected with a person who holds a licence shall be treated as if he also were a holder of that licence, and
(b)any person connected with a person who provides a local digital sound programme service shall be treated as if he also were providing that service,
and references to a person becoming the holder of a licence, or beginning to provide a service, shall be construed accordingly.
(2) References in this article to a person being connected with any other person shall be construed in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act(3).
(3) But a person shall not be treated as holding a local sound broadcasting licence or a local digital sound programme licence, or providing a local digital sound programme service, merely because he is the director of a body corporate which holds the licence or (as the case may be) provides the service.
Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1990 Act was amended by paragraphs 1 to 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, and Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the 1996 Act, and by section 357(1) of, paragraph 69(1) to (3) of Schedule 15 to, and Schedule 19 to, the 2003 Act.