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Broadcasting Act 1990

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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What to do with it
As published

157 Power of Council to commission research.

(1) The Council may make arrangements for the undertaking of research into matters related to or connected with— (a) the portrayal of violence or sexual conduct in programmes to which this Part applies, or (b) standards of taste and decency for such programmes generally. (2) The matters into which research may be undertaken in pursuance of subsection (1) include, in particular, matters falling within section 153(2)(a) and (b). (3) Arrangements made under subsection (1) shall secure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, any research undertaken in pursuance of the arrangements is undertaken by persons who are neither members nor employees of the Council. (4) The Council may publish the results of any research undertaken in pursuance of subsection (1).

Your change, as a redline

157 Power of Council to commission research.

(1) The Council may make arrangements for the undertaking of research into matters related to or connected with— (a) the portrayal of violence or sexual conduct in programmes to which this Part applies, or (b) standards of taste and decency for such programmes generally. (2) The matters into which research may be undertaken in pursuance of subsection (1) include, in particular, matters falling within section 153(2)(a) and (b). (3) Arrangements made under subsection (1) shall secure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, any research undertaken in pursuance of the arrangements is undertaken by persons who are neither members nor employees of the Council. (4) The Council may publish the results of any research undertaken in pursuance of subsection (1).

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Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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