Part 1: Public service television Programming quotas for public service television Section 10: Power to create additional quotas for qualifying audiovisual content
This section inserts a new section 278A into the Communications Act 2003. This new section establishes a mechanism for the creation of additional quotas for audiovisual content which is not being made available by one or more providers of a licensed public service channel to the extent that is appropriate.
	Subsection (1) of the new section 278A empowers the Secretary of State to (by regulations) specify a description of this audiovisual content. The Secretary of State may only make such regulations following a recommendation from OFCOM under section 229 or 264 of the CA 2003 (subsection (3)). Subsections (5) and (6) set out appropriate consultation requirements and subsection (7) sets out procedural requirements for the regulations, including usage of the draft affirmative procedure.
	Should the Secretary of State make regulations under subsection (1), subsection (4) requires OFCOM to mandate the provider of each licensed public service channel to make available an appropriate number of hours of "qualifying audiovisual content" (see section 11) meeting the description specified in the regulations.