Broadcasting Authority (Amendment) Act, 1979

Local broadcasting.

3.—Subsection (1) of section 16 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the insertion after “sound broadcasting service” of “and may establish and maintain local broadcasting services”, and

(b) the substitution of “those purposes” for “that purpose”,

and the said subsection, as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

TABLE

(1) The Authority shall establish and maintain a national television and sound broadcasting service and may establish and maintain local broadcasting services and shall have all such powers as are necessary for or incidental to those purposes.