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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Amendment (Restoring Shortwave
Radio) Bill 2017
No. , 2017
(Senator Xenophon)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, and for related
purposes
No. , 2017
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring
Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
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No. , 2017
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring
Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian
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Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, and for related
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purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment
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(Restoring Shortwave Radio) Act 2017.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Restoring
Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Shortwave Radio) Bill 2017
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
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1 After section 27
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Insert:
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27A Shortwave radio services
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(1) The Corporation must maintain 3 domestic shortwave radio
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transmission services for the Northern Territory which:
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(a) cover the same areas of the Northern Territory as the
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Corporation's shortwave radio transmission services covered
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on 30 January 2017; and
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(b) broadcast the proximate local radio service.
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(2) The Corporation must maintain an international shortwave radio
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transmission service for Papua New Guinea and parts of the Pacific
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which:
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(a) uses at least 3 transmitters; and
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(b) broadcasts the Corporation's international service; and
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(c) broadcasts programs in languages appropriate for the
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countries to which they are broadcast.
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