274 Securing reception of must-provide services in certain areas

274  Securing reception of must-provide services in certain areas

(1)     The regulatory regime for—

(a)     every licensed public service channel,

(b)     . . . and

(c)     every licensed television service added by order under section 275 to the list of must-provide services,

includes the conditions that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing that arrangements satisfying the requirements of this section are entered into and maintained by all the persons who provide must-provide services.

(2)     The conditions imposed on a person under this section may include the conditions that OFCOM consider appropriate for securing, in a case where—

(a)     the persons providing must-provide services fail to enter into or maintain arrangements satisfying the requirements of this section, and

(b)     OFCOM make and impose arrangements of their own instead,

that the person bound by the conditions is required to act in accordance with arrangements imposed by OFCOM.

(3)     The arrangements that are to be entered into, or may be imposed, are arrangements that secure—

(a)     that a facility for receiving each must-provide service is made available to every member of the intended audience for that service who is unable, without

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