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(b) to provide the Commission and the complainant with a transcript of so much of the relevant programme, or of any specified part of it, as consisted of speech, if and so far as that body are able to do so;

(c) to provide the Commission and the complainant with copies of any documents in the possession of that body being the originals or copies of any correspondence between that body and the person affected or the complainant in connection with the complaint;

(d) to furnish to the Commission and the complainant a written statement in answer to the complaint.

(5) Where the Commission propose to consider a complaint, it shall be the duty of the broadcasting body by whom the relevant programme was broadcast, if so required by the Commission, to arrange for one or more of the governors, members or officers of that body to attend and assist the Commission in their consideration of the complaint.

(6) Where, in connection with a complaint received by them, the Commission have made to any person (other than the broadcasting body by whom the relevant programme was broadcast) who appears to them to have been responsible for the making or provision of the relevant programme a request to which this subsection applies, it shall be the duty of that broadcasting body to take such steps as they reasonably can to ensure that the request is complied with.

(7) Subsection (6) applies to the following requests by the Commission to any such person as is there mentioned, namely—

(a) a request to make suitable arrangements for enabling the complainant and any member or officer of the Commission to view or hear the relevant programme, or any specified part of it, if and so far as the person requested has in his possession a visual or sound record of it;

(b) a request to provide the Commission and the complainant with a transcript of so much of the relevant programme, or of any specified part of it, as consisted of speech, if and so far as the person requested is able to do so;

(c) a request to provide the Commission and the complainant with copies of any documents in the possession of the person requested being the originals or copies of any correspondence between that person and the person affected or the complainant in connection with the complaint;