• The section of the agreement dealing with excerpts from theatre productions recorded for News, Magazine, Feature and Documentary programmes allows for the excerpt to be recorded within a call time of three hours, including any travel time and rehearsal.

The agreement allows for additional hours to be worked, subject to additional payments, on the day or days booked, and for additional days to be added to the engagement if necessary. It also specifies terms on which performers may be retained during parts of the production schedule for which they are not required.

There are reduced minimum fees for artists working on serials where more than one episode is rehearsed and recorded within seven days.

For variety acts, though not for other categories of performer, the agreement provides for reduced fees for programmes transmitted in one region only.

For Walk-ons and Supporting Artists, the agreement provides for additional payments for work in particular circumstances (eg particularly strenuous work, nudity, simulated sex), and for particular skills (eg driving, horse-riding, fencing).

The agreement provides for performers’ travel and subsistence.

The detail of the agreement covers such matters as payments for read-throughs, photographic sessions and costume fittings, voice-only performances (including