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• The Ofcom Broadcasting Code (Incorporating the Cross-promotion Code) - October 2008 [pdf]
  Full Print Version
• The Legislative Background to the Code
• How to use the code
• Section 1: Protecting the Under-Eighteens
• Section 2: Harm and Offence
• Section 3: Crime
• Section 4: Religion
• Section 5: Due Impartiality and Due Accuracy and Undue Prominence of Views and Opinions
• Section 6: Elections and Referendums
• Section 7: Fairness
• Section 8: Privacy
• Section 9: Sponsorship
• Section 10: Commercial References and Other Matters
• Appendix 1: Extracts from the Communications Act 2003
• Appendix 2: Extracts from the Television Without Frontiers Directive (89/552/EEC), as amended by (97/36/EC)
• Appendix 3: European Convention on Human Rights Articles 8, 9, 10 and 14
• Appendix 4: Financial Promotions and Investment Recommendations
• Cross-promotion Code

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