Restricted Service Licence - Disqualifications

Disqualifications

The following are automatically disqualified from holding a restricted service licence:

• county, district or borough councils
• The Welsh Assembly
• The BBC
• advertising agencies
• anyone with a conviction for pirate broadcasting is barred from applying for five years (however, a number of pirate stations have successfully applied for Restricted Service Licenses)
• Anyone with an unspent conviction is barred from applying for ten years from date of conviction (Murder and sex offences are never spent, as are prison sentences over two and a half years)
• undischarged bankrupts
• political parties, trade unions, lobby groups and certain religious organisations
• Anyone barred from being a company director