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(b) to secure that the provisions of the code are complied with as regards the advertisements included in the programmes broadcast by the Authority.
(2) The Authority may, in the discharge of their general responsibility for advertisements and methods of advertising, impose requirements as to advertisements and methods of advertising which go beyond the requirements imposed by the code under this section.
(3) The methods of control exercisable by the Authority for the purpose of securing that the provisions of the code under this section are complied with, and for the purpose of securing compliance with requirements imposed under subsection (2) which go beyond the requirements of the code, shall include a power to give directions to a programme contractor with respect to the classes and descriptions of advertisements and methods of advertising to be excluded, or to be excluded in particular circumstances, or with respect to the exclusion of a particular advertisement, or its exclusion in particular circumstances.
(4) The Authority may give directions to a programme contractor with respect to the times when advertisements are to be allowed.
(5) Directions under this section may be, to any degree, either general or specific and qualified or unqualified; and directions under subsection (4) may, in particular, relate to—
(a) the greatest amount of time to be given to advertisements in any hour or other period,
(b) the minimum interval which must elapse between any two periods given over to advertisements and the number of such periods to be allowed in any programme or item in a programme or in any hour or day,
(c) the exclusion of advertisements from a specified broadcast,
and may make different provision for different parts of the day, different days of the week, different types of programmes or for other differing circumstances.
Special provisions relating to the Fourth Channel
Provision by Authority of second television service.
10.—(1) If the Authority provide a television broadcasting service additional to that already being provided by them under this Act, the programmes (other than advertisements) broadcast in that service shall, subject to subsection (4) and without prejudice to section 12(2), be provided by the Authority themselves.
(2) In this Act—
(a) " ITV " Act means the television broadcasting service already being provided by the Authority under this Act, and " on ITV " means in that service;
