Broadcasting Act 1981
c. 68
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Variation and revocation of direction and notices.
62. Any direction or notice given by the Secretary of State or by the Authority under any provision in this Act may be varied Variation and or revoked by a subsequent direction or notice under that revocation of directions provision.
Interpretation
63.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
- " associate ", in relation to a body corporate (including a programme contractor which is a body corporate), means a body corporate which is a member of the same group as that body corporate, and for this purpose any two bodies corporate are to be treated as members of the same group if one of them is a body corporate of which the other is a subsidiary (within the meaning of section 154 of the Companies Act, 1948[1]) or if both 1948 of them are subsidiaries (within the meaning of that section) of one and the same body corporate;
- " the Authority " and " the IBA " mean the Independent Broadcasting Authority;
- "the BBC" means the British Broadcasting Corporation;
- " broadcast relay station " means a station for the re-transmission by cable or wire, to the customers of the persons maintaining the station, of broadcast programmes which those persons receive either by cable or wire or by wireless from the persons who broadcast the programmes;
- " the Commission " means the Broadcasting Complaints Commission;
- " control ", in relation to a body corporate, means the power of a person to secure, by means of the holding of shares or the possession of voting power in or in relation to that or any other body corporate, or by virtue of any powers conferred by the articles of association or other document regulating that or any other body corporate, that the affairs of the first-mentioned body corporate are conducted in accordance with, the wishes of that person; "}
- "financial year " means the twelve months ending with 31st March;
- " the Fourth Channel ", and references to programmes broadcast thereon, shall be construed in accordance with section 10(2);
- " for reception in Wales " means for reception wholly or mainly in Wales;
- " ITV ", and references to programmes broadcast thereon, shall be construed in accordance with section 10(2);
- ↑ 1948 c.38
