277 Programming quotas for independent productions

Programming quotas for public service television

277  Programming quotas for independent productions

(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The regulatory regime for every licensed public service channel includes the conditions that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing that, in each year, not less than 25 per cent of the total amount of time allocated to the broadcasting of qualifying programmes included in the channel is allocated to the broadcasting of a range and diversity of independent productions.

[(1)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The regulatory regime for every licensed public service channel includes the conditions that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing that in each year—

(a)ÌýÌýÌýÌý the provider of the licensed public service channel makes available qualifying audiovisual content that includes a range and diversity of independent productions commissioned in accordance with the provider's commissioning code, and

(b)ÌýÌýÌýÌý the duration (in total) of those independent productions is at least the number of hours specified by order of the Secretary of State.]

(2)ÌýÌýÌýÌý In this section—

(a)ÌýÌýÌýÌý a reference to qualifying programmes is a reference to programmes of such description as the Secretary of State may by order specify as describing the programmes that are to be qualifying programmes for the purposes of this section;

(b)ÌýÌýÌýÌý a reference to independent

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