Broadcasting Act 1990

Provisions relating to teletext services

4 (1) For the purposes of—

(a) this Part of this Schedule, and

(b) the provisions of the 1981 Act which have effect in accordance with this Part of this Schedule,

teletext transmissions shall not be treated as programmes; but this is subject to sub-paragraph (2) and to any of those provisions of the 1981 Act which expressly requires such transmissions to be so treated for the purposes of any particular provision.

(2) In paragraphs 1(8) and 2(3)(b) above and 10 below and in the provisions specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to the 1981 Act (as they have effect in accordance with this Part of this Schedule)—

(a) references to programmes or to television programmes shall be read as including references to teletext transmissions; and

(b) references to programme contractors shall be read as including references to teletext contractors.

(3) In section 3(2) of the 1981 Act, in its application to teletext transmissions or teletext contractors by virtue of sub-paragraph (2), the reference to section 2(3) of that Act shall be read as a reference to section 14(2) of that Act (as it has effect by virtue of paragraph 2(1) above).

(4) The following provisions of the 1981 Act, namely—

(a) section 20(2)(b) and (3), and

(b) section 22,

shall not have effect by virtue of paragraph 2(2) above in relation to teletext contractors or their contracts.