103AA.—(1) This section applies when a broadcasting organisation transmits by direct injection its programme-carrying signals to a network operator where—

(a) the broadcasting organisation does not make the broadcast, and

(b) the network operator makes the broadcast.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the broadcasting organisation and the network operator referred to in subsection (1) shall be deemed to be participating in a single act of communication to the public and the parties shall only undertake that communication with the authorisation of the rightholder.

(3) If an authorisation concerning a transmission by direct injection, to which this section would apply, is in force on 7 June 2021, this section shall not apply to that authorisation until 7 June 2025.

(4) In this section—

"direct injection" means a technical process by which a broadcasting organisation transmits its programme-carrying signals in such a way that the programme-carrying signals are not accessible to the public during that transmission;

"network operator" means the operator of an electronic communications network (within the meaning of the Communications Regulation Act 2002).]