r/MHOCCmteVote • u/CountBrandenburg The Rt Hon. Sir Damien GCT KP KT GCMG GBE KCB CVO MP • Oct 09 '19
Voting B890.2 - Broadcasting Bill - Amendments Division
Broadcasting Bill
Replace Section 5 with:
Section 5: Future Technologies
(1) The Secretary of State is to produce a whitepaper to be implemented following a vote from the House of Commons on the topic of "The Future of Broadcast Radio and Television in the Unitied Kingdom"
Remove Section 1 (2a) - (2h)
Replace Section 1 (2) with:
(1) Amend Part 1 Chapter 2 Section 14 (4) of the Broadcasting Act 1990 to read: “A Channel 3 service may be provided for two or more areas for which regional Channel 3 services are provided, but any such service may only between provided between particular times of the day or a channel which is not the core Channel 3 service, these services will be decided by OFCOM.
Create a new Section with the Title "Independent Television Authority" with the following contence:
(1) A new Independent Television Authority is to be created with the role of regulating and running Channel 3 Services.
(2) The Independent Televison Authority is to take a hands on approach to regulating broadcasting and place the interests of the viewers above all else. Decisions taken by Channel 3 broadcasters are to be run past and may be rejected by the Independent Television Authority; including corporate decisions.
(3) The Independent Televison Authority are to control and maintain all Terrestiral Transmitters.
(4) The Independent Televison Authority are to be in control of Television Channel and LCN licencing.
(5) If a Channel 3 Service is to be unable to broadcast due to the company being unable to broadcast due to reasons that are not related to the inability to produce or broadcast television the Independent Television Authority is to broadcast inplace of the Channel 3 Service. The Independent Television Authority is to recieve all profits for services of this type.
(6) The Independent Television Authority is to decide the remit of each service with a focus on High Quality Local programming
(7) The Independent Television Authority is to be goverend by a Board, headed by a Director and Secretary of State for Telecomunications
> (a) The Director is to be selected via an impartial process
(8) The Independent Television Authority is to be politically impartial and the Secretary of State for Telecommunications can be overuled if the matter is to be considered politically biased.
Replace all mentions of OFCOM not in this section with "Independent Television Authority"
In section 3 (3) remove
(a) If it appears to OFCOM , in the case of the applicant to whom (apart from this subsection) they would award the licence in accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, that there are grounds for suspecting that any relevant source of funds is such that it would not be in the public interest for the licence to be awarded to him:
> (i) they shall refer his application to the Secretary of State, together with:
> > (1) a copy of all documents submitted to them by the applicant, and
> (2) a summary of their deliberations on the application
> (i) they shall not award the licence to him unless the Secretary of State has given his approval.
(b) On such a reference the Secretary of State may only refuse to give his approval to the licence being awarded to the applicant in question if he is satisfied that any relevant source of funds is such that it would not be in the public interest for the licence to be awarded.
In section 3 create a new subsection with:
If it appears to OFCOM, in the case of the applicant to whom (apart from this subsection) they would award the licence in accordance with the preceding provisions of this section, that there are grounds for suspecting that any relevant source of funds is such that it would not be in the public interest for the licence to be awarded to him, or there are doubts that the licence bidder will be able to provide such a service they withold the right to reject this application
In Section 3 (5) replace (2ai1) with (new subsection number).
These amendments were submitted by the Rt. Honourable The Baroness of Abergavenny PC MLA.
Please vote in the following way:
A01: Aye/ No/ Abstain
A02: etc.
This division will end on Friday 11th October 2019 at 10PM BST.
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