Schedule 6B, Part 1A, paragraph 2B(1)

A foreign power (“the main foreign power”) is not able to control or influence the policy of a newspaper owner by virtue of the shares condition or the voting rights condition where— all of the shares or voting rights that the main foreign power holds in the newspaper owner are held by the foreign power, indirectly, via a state owned investor acting on behalf of the foreign power, where the state owned investor holds, directly, more than 5% but no more than 15% of the shares or voting rights in the newspaper owner, the condition in sub-paragraph (1A) is met, and the total holdings of shares or voting rights in the newspaper owner held, directly or indirectly, by state owned investors acting on behalf of any foreign power of any country or territory is no more than 15% of the shares or voting rights in the newspaper owner (subject to sub-paragraph (1D)).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04