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c.68
Broadcasting Act 1981

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  • " local sound broadcast " means a programme which is broadcast (otherwise than as part of a television broadcast) from a station so constructed and operated as to have a range of transmission limited to that which is sufficient, in normal circumstances, to ensure adequate reception throughout a particular locality, or from two or more stations so constructed and operated as to have collectively such a range of transmission, and " local sound broadcasting services " means services consisting of programmes so broadcast; and, where a programme is so broadcast, the fact that—

(a) as so broadcast it is received outside that particular locality, or

(b) it is also broadcast (whether simultaneously or not) from one or more other stations for reception in other localities,

shall not prevent it from being regarded as a local sound broadcast within the meaning of this Act;

  • "programme contractor " has the meaning given by section 2(3);
  • "teletext contractor " has the meaning given by section 14(2);
  • "teletext transmission " and " teletext service have the meaning given by section 14(6);
  • "TV programme contractor " has the meaning given by section 10(2);
  • "the Welsh Authority " means the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority;
  • "wireless telegraphy ", " station for wireless telegraphy " and " apparatus for wireless telegraphy " have the same meaning as in the Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1949[1]

(2) Any reference in this Act to a contract for the provision by a programme contractor of local sound broadcasts shall be construed as including a reference to a contract which is—

(a) partly for the provision by that contractor of local sound broadcasts for reception in a particular locality, and

(b) partly for the provision of news, information, music or other material to be supplied to other programme contractors for the purposes of local sound broadcasts to be provided by them;

but, in relation to any such contract, the locality, where the reference is to the provision of local sound broadcasts for reception in a particular locality, shall be taken to be the locality referred to in paragraph (a).


  1. 1949 c. 54