The Foreign Satellite Service Proscription Order 2005

Section 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 gives the Secretary of State power to make orders proscribing foreign satellite services for the purposes of section 178 of that Act in any case where the Office of Communications consider the quality of such a service to be unacceptable and have notified to her details of that service and their reasons for considering that such an order should be made. They cannot consider the quality of a service to be unacceptable unless they are satisfied that it repeatedly includes in its programmes matter which offends against good taste or decency or is likely to encourage or incite crime or to lead to disorder or to be offensive to public feeling.

Author: Andrew McIntosh, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Last modified: 2010-07-16