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58 Annual reports of Commission.

59.—(1) As soon as may be after the end of every financial year, the Commission shall prepare a report of their proceedings during that year, and transmit it to the Secretary of State who shall consider it, lay copies of it before each House of Parliament, and cause it to be published.

(2) The said report shall have attached to it the statement of accounts prepared under paragraph 8 of Schedule 7 for the year and a copy of any report made by the auditor on that statement.

(3) The Commission shall send a copy of the said report to each broadcasting body and every programme contractor.

Power to modify Part III in relation to programmes broadcast on the Fourth Channel in Wales.

60.—(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for all or any of the provisions of this Part to apply, with such as may be specified cases where the exceptions, additions or other modifications in the regulations, in relation to complaints in relevant programme was broadcast by the IBA on the Fourth Channel in Wales (and was therefore provided by the Welsh Authority and not by the IBA).

(2) In this section—

(a) the reference to this Part does not include section 53, this section or Schedule 7 but includes sections 21(7) and 40; and

(b) " the Fourth Channel in Wales " has the meaning given by section 47(2).

(3) Regulations under this section may make different provision for different circumstances.

(4) Any regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

Approvals by Authority.

61. The Authority may—

(a) for the purposes of any provision in this Act which makes anything subject to the approval of the Authority, or

(b) for the purposes of provisions included in the contracts between the Authority and the various programme contractors in pursuance of section 24(2),

give an approval in general terms applying to all cases within the terms in which the approval is given.