HC Deb 18 July 1983 vol 46 c109

Resolved, That any Act of the present Session to provide for the appointment and functions of a Director General of Telecommunications, to abolish British Telecommunications' exclusive privilege with respect to telecommunications and to make new provision with respect to the provision of telecommunication services ("the Act") may—

  1. (1) authorise the inclusion in licences for the running of telecommunication systems of conditions requiring the rendering of payments to the Secretary of State;
  2. (2) require persons to whom licences for the provision of cable programme services are granted to pay to the Secretary of State such sums as may be prescribed by or determined under regulations;
and that, for the purposes of the Act, it is expedient to authorise the payment into the Consolidated Fund or the National Loans Fund of any sums falling to be paid into that Fund by virtue of the Act.—[Mr. Lang.]