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

(e) a request to attend or, where the person requested is not an individual, to arrange for a representative to attend and assist the Commission in their consideration of the complaint.

(8) The Commission may, if they think fit, make to any person who attends them in connection with a complaint such payments as they think fit by way of travelling allowance or subsistence allowance where expenditure on travelling or, as the case may be, on subsistence is necessarily incurred by him for the purpose of enabling him so to, attend.

Publication of Commission's findings.

57.—(1) Where the Commission have considered and adjudicated upon a complaint, they may give to the broadcasting body Commission's findings. by whom the relevant programme was broadcast directions requiring them to publish, in any manner specified in the directions, and within such period as may be so specified

(a) a summary of the complaint approved for the purpose by the Commission; and

(b) the Commission's findings on the complaint or a summary thereof so approved.

(2) A broadcasting body shall comply with any directions given to them under subsection (1).

(3) The Commission shall publish, at such intervals and in such manner as they think fit, reports each containing, as regards every complaint within this subsection dealt with by them in the period covered by the report, a summary of the complaint and of the action taken by them on it and, where they have adjudicated upon it, a summary of their findings.

(4) A complaint made to the Commission is within subsection (3) unless it is one which they are precluded from entertaining by section 54(2) or 55(2).

(5) The Commission may, if they think fit, omit from any summary included in a report under subsection (3) any information which could lead to the disclosure of the identity of any person connected with the complaint in question other than a broadcasting body or programme contractor.

Duty to publicise Commission

58. It shall be the duty of each broadcasting body to publish (by means of broadcasts or otherwise) regular announcements publicising the Commission and their function of considering and adjudicating upon complaints.