§ PROVISIONS SUPPLEMENTARY TO SECTION (SPECIAL PROVISIONS AS TO NEWSPAPER SHAREHOLDINGS IN RELATION TO LOCAL SOUND BROADCASTS)
- (1) Notwithstanding anything in section (Special provisions as to newspaper share holdings in relation to local sound broadcasts) of this Act, the Authority shall not require arrangements to be made in relation to a newspaper as mentioned in subsection (5) of that section if it is their opinion that it would be contrary to the public interest for the proprietor of that newspaper to acquire a shareholding in accordance with subsection (6) of that section, and the Minister concurs in that opinion.
- (2) Every contract to which that section applies shall include provisions whereby, if during the currency of the contract arrangements are made for extending (otherwise than by way of any minor modification) the range of transmission of programmes to be provided under the contract, whether by an alteration in the construction or operation of one or more stations or by the addition of one or more stations or otherwise, subsections (2) to (7) of that section and subsection (1) of this section shall have effect in relation to those
1172 arrangements as if they were a contract to which that section applies. - (3) The Authority shall not be required to act in accordance with subsections (2) to (7) of section (Special provisions as to newspaper shareholdings in relation to local sound broadcasts) of this Act in connection with the making of a contract with a programme contractor if—
- (a) the contract is to specify the same station as was, or the same stations as were, specified in a previous contract to which that section applied (whether the previous contract was with the same programme contractor or a different programme contractor), and
- (b) the range or aggregate range of transmission of broadcasts under the new contract is not to be greater (otherwise than by way of any minor modification) than under the previous contract.
- (4) Where subsection (3) of this section applies, it shall not be construed as precluding the Authority from requiring such arrangements as are mentioned in subsections (5) to (7) of section (Special provisions as to newspaper shareholdings in relation to local sound broadcasts) of this Act to be made in connection with the new contract in respect of a newspaper whose proprietor acquired a shareholding in accordance with such arrangements in connection with the previous contract, if it appears to the Authority that by reason of special circumstances it would be just and equitable to do so.—[Mr. Chataway.]
§ Brought up, and read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.