Broadcasting Distribution Regulations

26 (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) or under a condition of its licence, a licensee may distribute, on a stand-alone basis, a single point-of-view religious pay television service, a limited point-of-view religious pay television service, a religious specialty service, a religious exempt Category B service or a religious authorized non-Canadian programming service.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) or under a condition of its licence, a licensee shall not distribute a single point-of-view religious pay television service, a limited point-of-view religious pay television service, a religious specialty service, a religious exempt Category B service or a religious authorized non-Canadian programming service in a package of programming services unless the other services in the package are one or more of those types of services.

(3) The licensee may only distribute the services referred to in subsections (1) and (2) as discretionary services.