327 Standards with respect to fairness
Communications Act 2003 (2003 c 21) | Legislation

327  Standards with respect to fairness

(1)     Part 5 of the 1996 Act (functions of the Broadcasting Standards Commission which are transferred to OFCOM so far as they relate to codes of practice and complaints with respect to fairness and privacy) shall be amended as follows.

(2)     No person shall be entitled to make a standards complaint under that Part at any time after the coming into force of this section, and no person shall be required to entertain any such complaint that is so made.

(3)     In section 115 (consideration of fairness complaint)—

(a)     in subsection (4) (matters to be provided in response to a fairness complaint), after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted—

“(da)     to provide OFCOM with such other things appearing to OFCOM to be relevant to their consideration of the complaint, and to be in the

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