Part 1 Broadcasting Act 1990
Communications Act 2003 (2003 c 21) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 13 Financial Penalties under the Broadcasting Acts

Section 345

Part 1 Broadcasting Act 1990

Preliminary

1

The 1990 Act shall be amended as follows.

Revocation of television services licence

2

(1)     In subsection (3) of section 18 (penalty on revocation of television services licence), for “a financial penalty of the prescribed amount†there shall be substituted “a specified financial penaltyâ€.

(2)     For subsection (4) of that section (amount of penalty) there shall be substituted—

“(3A)     The maximum amount which a person may be required to pay by way of a penalty under subsection (3) is the maximum penalty given by subsections (3B) and (3C).

(3B)     In a case where the licence is revoked under this section or the penalty is imposed before the end of the first complete accounting period of the licence holder to fall within the period for which the licence is in force, the maximum penalty is whichever is the greater of—

(a)     £500,000; and

(b)     7 per cent of the amount which OFCOM estimate would have been the qualifying revenue for the first complete accounting period of the licence holder falling within the period for which the licence would have been

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