- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67, 1985
- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67 of 1985 - LONG TITLE
- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67 of 1985- SECT 1 Short title
- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67 of 1985 - SECT 2 Commencement
- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67 of 1985 - SECT 3 Amendment of Acts
- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67 of 1985 - SECT 4 Transitional
- BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67 of 1985- SCHEDULE
BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 67, 1985
An Act to make certain amendments in consequence of the enactment of the
Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1985
(Assented to 5 June 1985)
1. This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting and Television (Consequential
Amendments) Act 1985.
(Minister's second reading speech made in-
House of Representatives on 15 May 1985;
Senate on 28 May 1985)
2. This Act shall come into operation on 1 January 1986.
3. The Acts specified in the Schedule are amended as set out in the
Schedule.
4. (1) Notwithstanding the amendments made by section 3, where an Act
amended by that section would, but for the amendments, have applied to or in
relation to an old system licence, the holder of an old system licence or a
station operated under an old system licence, that Act continues so to apply.
(2) In this section, "old system licence" has the same meaning as in Part
III of the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1985.
SCHEDULE Section 3
AMENDMENT OF ACTS
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
Section 3 (definitions of "national broadcasting translator station licence"
and "national television translator station licence") -
Omit the definitions.
Section 26 -
Omit "and Television".
Section 73 (definition of "transmitting station") -
(a) Omit "national broadcasting translator station licence", substitute
"re-broadcasting licence under the Broadcasting Act 1942".
(b) Omit "national television translator station licence", substitute
"re-broadcasting licence under the Broadcasting Act 1942".
Sub-section 78(3) -
Omit "and Television".
Section 79 -
Omit "and Television".
Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
Sub-section 287(1) (definition of "broadcaster") -
Omit the definition, substitute the following definition:
"'broadcaster' means -
(a) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation constituted under the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983;
(b) the Special Broadcasting Service established by Part IIIA of the
Broadcasting Act 1942; or
(c) the holder of a licence within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1942,
other than a re-broadcasting licence or a re-transmission licence within the
meaning of that Act;".
Paragraph 310(1)(a) -
Omit "station from", substitute "broadcasting service as part of".
Sub-section 310(3) -
Omit "and Television".
Sub-section 333(1) -
Omit "broadcast or televise or cause, permit or authorize to be broadcast or
televised, from a broadcasting station or a television station", substitute "broadcast,
or cause, permit or authorize to be broadcast, as part of an authorized broadcasting service".
Sub-section 333(2) -
(a) Omit "or televised".
(b) Omit "broadcasting station for broadcasting or to the television station
for televising, as the case may be," substitute "broadcaster".
Sub-section 333(4) -
Omit the sub-section, substitute the following sub-section:
"(4) In this section -
'address' does not include a post-office box;
'authorized broadcasting service' means a broadcasting service provided
pursuant to the Broadcasting Act 1942 or the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983; 'broadcast' includes televise.".
Copyright Act 1968
Sub-section 9(2) -
Omit the sub-section.
Sub-section 10(1) (definitions of "holder of a licence for a broadcasting
station" and "holder of a licence for a television station") -
Omit the definitions, substitute the following definitions:
"'holder of a licence for a broadcasting station' means the holder of a
subsisting radio licence under the Broadcasting Act 1942;
'holder of a licence for a television station' means the holder of a
Subsisting television licence under the Broadcasting Act 1942;".
Sub-section 10(1) (definition of "the Special Broadcasting Service") -
Omit "and Television".
Sub-section 152(9) -
Omit the sub-section, substitute the following sub-section:
"(9) Where a broadcaster being the holder of a licence for a broadcasting
station has, with the leave of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal under section 123 of
the Broadcasting Act 1942, adopted an accounting period ending on a day other
than 30 June, the reference in sub-section (8) of this section to 30 June shall, in
relation to that broadcaster, be read as a reference to that other day.".
Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946
Sub-section 3(1) (definition of "national broadcasting station") -
Omit "Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1972", substitute "Australian
Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983".
Sub-section 4(1) -
Omit "Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1972", substitute "Broadcasting
Act 1942".
Sub-section 4(2) -
Omit "Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1973", substitute "Broadcasting
Act 1942".
Section 16 -
Omit "Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1972", substitute "Broadcasting
Act 1942".
Radiocommunications Act 1983
Sub-section 3(1) (definition of "broadcasting station") -
Omit the definition, substitute the following definition:
"'broadcasting station' means a transmitter that is operating for the purpose
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