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The Welsh Fourth Channel Authority.

46.—(1) The authority called the Welsh Fourth Channel shall continue in existence as a body corporate.

(2) The Welsh Authority shall consist of—

(a) a Chairman appointed by the Secretary of State; and

(b) four other members so appointed.

(3) The Welsh Authority, unless previously dissolved, shall cease to function if and when the IBA cease to function under section 2(1).

(4) Schedule 5 shall have effect with respect to the Welsh Authority.

Function, powers and duties of Welsh Authority.

47.—(1) The function of the Welsh Authority shall be—

(a) to provide television programmes (other than advertisements) of high quality for broadcasting by the IBA on the Fourth Channel in Wales; and

(b) to provide the IBA with programme schedules for those programmes;

and, subject to the provisions of this Act so far as they apply in relation to the Fourth Channel in Wales, it shall be the duty of the IBA to broadcast on that Channel the programmes provided by the Welsh Authority, and to do so in accordance with the programme schedules so provided.

(2) In this Part "the Fourth Channel in Wales" means the Fourth Channel so far as it consists of programmes (other than advertisements) broadcast for reception in Wales.

(3) A substantial proportion of the programmes included in the programme schedules provided by the Welsh Authority shall be in Welsh; and the programme schedules shall be drawn up so as to secure that the programmes broadcast on the Fourth Channel in Wales between the hours of 6.30 p.m. and 10.00 p.m. consist mainly of programmes in Welsh.

(4) Subject to subsection (3), the programme schedules provided by the Welsh Authority shall be drawn up with a view to securing that, for any period allocated to the broadcasting of a programme not in Welsh, the programme broadcast is normally the same as the programme (or one of the programmes) broadcast on the Fourth Channel in that period for reception otherwise than in Wales.

(5) It shall be the duty of the Welsh Authority—

(a) to discharge their function under subsection (1) so as to secure that the Fourth Channel in Wales is a public