Part 6: Miscellaneous Section 90: Provision of children’s programmes
This section confers a power on Ofcom, if it thinks fit, to publish criteria relating to the provision of children’s programmes on licensed public service channels (i.e. Channel 3, Channel 4 and Channel 5) and services related to those channels. This section also confers a power on Ofcom to impose, if it considers necessary, conditions (quotas) that it deems appropriate for securing that the provision of children’s programmes meets any such criteria.
	This section requires Ofcom to publish any criteria relating to the provision of children’s programmes in a statement that sets out the criteria and how it proposes to apply them. Before publishing or reviewing any statement, Ofcom must carry out a public consultation. After any review, Ofcom would revise or withdraw the criteria by publishing a further statement. Where Ofcom publishes criteria, it may from time to time assess the provision of children’s programmes in relation to any licensed public service channel. For the purposes of that assessment, Ofcom must take into account the provision of children’s programmes on all "related services" and draw no distinction between whether a programme is provided on a licenced public service channel or on another service.