Part 1: Public service television Sporting and other events of national interest Section 21: Contracts relating to coverage of listed events
Section 99 of the BA 1996 applies to contracts for exclusive rights to show live coverage of listed events to UK audiences. It means that, where a person attempts to enter into a contract under which they will obtain exclusive rights to show live coverage of a listed event to UK audiences on a relevant service, that contract will be void. The section amends the application of sections 99 and 100 from contracts with "television programme providers" to anyone acquiring rights to show all or part of a listed event on a relevant service. The amendments also update the definition of exclusively granting rights so as to ensure the contract voiding rules apply in the same way to partnership deals as they do to non-partnership deals under the existing regime, and make it clear that section 99 only applies to Group A listed events.
	Section 100 of the BA 1996 is also amended to take account of the new definition of relevant services.