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80 Status of Commission 9. The Commission shall not be regarded as the servant or agent of the Crown or as enjoying any status, privilege or immunity of the Crown; and the Commission's property shall not be regarded as property of or property held on behalf of the Crown.

 

General

1. Any reference in this Act (whether express or implied) to a thing done or falling to be done under a provision of this Act shall, so far as the context permits, be construed as including, in relation to times, circumstances and purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision repealed by this Act had effect, a reference to a thing done or falling to be done under that corresponding provision; and where that provision was itself a re-enactment of an earlier provision such references shall extend in the same way to that earlier provision, and so on.

Programme Contracts

2. Nothing in the repeals made by this Act shall affect—

(a) the continued operation of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to the with respect to contracts in force immediately before the commencement of that Act; or

(b) the continued operation of paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the with respect to contracts in force immediately before the commencement of the provisions of that Act to which that paragraph applies, except that, in the operation of that paragraph in relation to the commencement of any such provision by virtue of whose commencement this Act comes into force under section 66(4), references in that paragraph to the new statutory provisions shall be read as references to this Act (instead of as provided by sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph).

3. In its application to contracts for the provision of local sound broadcasts for a period beginning before 1st January 1980, section 19(1)(b) shall have effect as if the reference to the relevant maximum period were a reference to a period of 11 years or the period ending with 31st December 1986, whichever is the shorter.

4.In relation to contracts for the provision of teletext transmissions for a period beginning on or before 1st January 1982—

(a) subsections (3) and (4) of section 19 shall not apply; and (b) subsection (5) shall have effect as if the words " other than the first " were omitted.

5. Nothing in any provision of Part I relating to the Fourth Channel or the Welsh Authority, or in Part II, shall be taken to require 