Commentary on Sections Part 3: Television and Radio Services Chapter 4: Regulatory Provisions Section 329: Proscription orders
692.Where OFCOM have notified the Secretary of State that a foreign television or sound service repeatedly contains programmes with content that offends taste or decency, is likely to incite crime or disorder or is likely to be offensive to public feeling, she may issue a proscription order where she is satisfied that to do so is in the public interest and compatible with the international obligations of the United Kingdom. Subsection (6) sets out the services to which this section applies.
	*The meaning of a foreign service is given in subsection (7) and broadly encompasses those services which do not need to be licensed under the Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996 but would be if they were provided in the United Kingdom or the provider fell within the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Television without Frontiers Directive.