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Rh (10) Schedule 4 shall have effect for supplementing this section, and in that Schedule this section, together with sections 33 to 35, are referred to as " the principal sections ".

Provisions supplemental to's. 32

33.—(1) The contracts between the Authority and the various provisions programme contractors shall include such terms as are in the supplemental opinion of the Authority necessary or expedient to ensure that, except for deduction of commission by persons acting as advertising agents, the amount of the advertising receipts of a programme contractor is not reduced under arrangements by which any part of the consideration for the insertion of advertisements in programmes provided by the programme contractor is receivable by any person other than the programme contractor (whether that person is under the control of the programme contractor or not).

(2) Every contract between the Authority and a programme contractor which provides either for the supply of television programmes or for the supply of local sound broadcasts to be broadcast from stations of which some are in Great Britain and some in Northern Ireland shall provide that, as regards his advertising receipts for any period, the programme contractor shall give to the Authority such information as they may require for the purpose of ascertaining the proportions in which those receipts derive from the broadcasting of advertisements from stations in Great Britain and stations in Northern Ireland respectively.

(3) On receipt of any additional payments the Authority shall deal with them as follows:—

(a) if they were paid under a contract for the supply of programmes to be broadcast from stations all of which are in Great Britain, the Authority shall pay them into the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom;

(b) if they were paid under a contract for the supply of programmes to be broadcast from stations all of which are in Northern Ireland, the Authority shall pay them into the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland;

(c) if they were paid under such a contract as is mentioned in subsection (2), the Authority shall pay them into the Consolidated Funds of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland respectively in the proportions in which, according to the information supplied by the programme contractor, the advertising receipts for the relevant accounting period derive from the broadcasting of advertisements from stations in Great Britain and stations in Northern Ireland or, if the programme