HC Deb 18 February 1980 vol 979 cc171-2

Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the inclusion, in any Act of the present Session to amend and supplement the Independent Broadcasting Authority Act 1973 and to establish a Broadcasting Complaints Commission, of—

  1. (a) provisions authorising or requiring the Independent Broadcasting Authority to con- 172 tract with local sound programme contractors for payments to the Authority the amount and nature of which is determined by or under the said Act of 1973 as amended and supplemented by the said Act of the present Session, and provision for any part of those payments to be paid, directly or indirectly, into the Consolidated Fund;
  2. (b) provisions for raising from programme contractors contributions towards the expenses of that Commission, and provision for those payments to be paid, directly or indirectly, into the Consolidated Fund; and
  3. (c) provisions requiring the payment of any other sums into the Consolidated Fund.—[Mr. Whitelaw.]