Part 3: Public service broadcasters Chapter 2: S4C Section 35: Amendment of BBC’s obligation to provide Welsh programmes
This section allows the BBC and S4C to come to an alternative agreement on ways for the BBC to support S4C in delivery of its public service remit, rather than the previously fixed approach of requiring the BBC to provide at least 10 hours of programmes in Welsh to S4C per week.
	Subsection (2) amends the current subsection (1) and (1A) of section 58 of the BA 1990 (sources of programmes for S4C) to allow the BBC and S4C to agree an alternative arrangement in writing to the BBC’s existing responsibility to provide S4C with at least 10 hours of Welsh language programmes per week. When no alternative agreement is in place, the BBC’s existing responsibility to provide 10 hours of content in Welsh continues. Under new (1B), the BBC must publish the terms of an alternative agreement as soon as reasonably practicable. New (1C) allows the BBC to exclude from publication any information which it or S4C considers to be commercially sensitive unless they consider there is an overriding public interest in publishing the information.
	Subsection (3) removes references to S4C’s analogue television service and the requirement for Channel 4 to provide S4C with programme schedules and programmes to deliver that service. This reflects the fact that S4C’s analogue television service, which showed English programmes from the Channel 4 service alongside Welsh language programmes when Channel 4 was not available in all parts of Wales, no longer exists.
	Subsection (4) makes changes to replace references to the Welsh Authority with references to S4C, to reflect the move away from the previous governance structure to the unitary board and the subsequent use of the term "S4C" to refer to the organisation as a whole rather than the analogue television channel which, following the digital switchover, no longer exists.