Cap. 350 Art. 16JCRequired consent to changes in programmes or audiovisual media services.

(1) Programmes and, or audiovisual media services should not be transmitted in a shortened form, altered or interrupted, or overlaid for commercial purposes, without the explicit consent of the media service provider:

Provided that this article would not effect control elements of any user interface necessary for the operation of the device or programme navigation, such as volume bars, search functions, navigation menus or lists of channels.

(2) Sub-article (1) does not apply to legitimate overlays, such as warning information, general public interest information, subtitles or commercial communications overlays provided by the media service provider.

(3) Without prejudice to Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) 2015/ 2120 of the European Parliament and of the Council, data compression techniques which reduce the size of a data file and other techniques to adapt a service to the distribution means, such as resolution and coding, without any modification of the content, should not be covered either.