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BROADCASTING ORDINANCE (4) The Broadcasting Authority may at any time withdraw its approval from any code of practice approved under this section.

(5) Where under subsection (4) the Broadcasting Authority withdraws its approval from a code of practice approved under this section, it shall, by notice in the Gazette, identify the code concerned and specify the date on which its approval of it is to cease to have effect.

(6) References in this Ordinance to a “Code of Practice” are references to that code as it has effect for the time being by virtue of any revision of the whole or any part of it approved under this section.

(7) The power of the Broadcasting Authority under subsection (1)(b) to approve a code of practice issued or proposed to be issued otherwise than by it shall include power to approve a part of such a code and, accordingly, in this Ordinance “Code of Practice” may be read as including a part of such a code.

(8) The Broadcasting Authority shall, before approving a code of practice under subsection (1) or any revision or proposed revision of the code under subsection (3), consult with—
 * (a) such bodies representative of licensees to which the code or the code as so revised, as the case may be, will apply (whether in whole or in part); and
 * (b) in so far as the code or the code as so revised, as the case may be, relates to the technical standards of a broadcasting service, the Telecommunications Authority,

as it thinks fit.

(9) For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that different codes of practice may be approved under subsection (1) for different classes of licensees, and may be so approved for the same or different requirements mentioned in that subsection or licence conditions.

4. Guidelines

(1) The Broadcasting Authority may from time to time cause to be prepared and published by notice in the Gazette, for the guidance of licensees or companies seeking to be licensees, guidelines not inconsistent with this Ordinance—
 * (a) indicating the manner in which the Broadcasting Authority proposes to perform functions conferred by this Ordinance upon the Broadcasting Authority;
 * (b) on such other matters relevant to this Ordinance as the Broadcasting Authority thinks fit.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Broadcasting Authority shall, as soon as is practicable, issue guidelines indicating the manner in which it proposes to—