302. Meaning of 'on-demand programme service'.

For the purposes of the Communications Act 2003, a service (or a dissociable section of a service) is an 'on-demand programme service' if1:

(1)     its principal purpose is the provision of programmes with or without sounds which consist of moving or still images, or of legible text, or of a combination of those things2;

(2)     access to it is on-demand3;

(3)     there is a person who has editorial responsibility for it4;

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