Part 6: Miscellaneous Section 97: Televising events of national interest: power to amend qualifying conditions
This section inserts into section 98 of the Broadcasting Act 1996 a power for the Secretary of State to amend the conditions in subsection (2) of that section which a television channel must meet in order to be a qualifying service for the purposes of the listed events regime.
	New subsection (5A) enables the Secretary of State to amend by regulations the percentage of the population by which a channel must be received in order to be a qualifying service.
	New subsection (5B) prevents a change made by regulations under this section from altering the validity of pre-existing contracts between broadcasters and holders of rights to listed events. New subsection (5C) enables the inclusion of transitional, transitory, or saving provisions in regulations under this section.