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(1)A Channel 3 or Channel 5 licence shall include conditions requiring the licence holder—
(a)to broadcast in the licensed service news programmes of high quality dealing with national and international matters; and
(b)to broadcast such programmes in that service at intervals throughout the period for which the service is provided, and in particular (except in the case of a national Channel 3 licence) at peak viewing times.
(2)A regional Channel 3 licence shall, in addition, include conditions requiring the news programmes broadcast by the licence holder in compliance with conditions imposed in pursuance of subsection (1) to be programmes provided by a nominated news provider which are—
(a)presented live, and
(b)broadcast simultaneously with the broadcasts of news programmes provided by the same nominated news provider which are made by other holders of regional Channel 3 licences in compliance with conditions so imposed.
(3)In subsection (2) “nominated news provider” means a body corporate for the time being nominated for the purposes of that subsection under section 32.
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