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BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 87

ACMA may impose additional conditions on community broadcasting licences

  (1)   The ACMA may, by notice in writing given to a community broadcasting licensee, vary or revoke a condition of the licence or impose an additional condition on the licence.

  (2)   If the ACMA proposes to vary or revoke a condition or to impose a new condition, the ACMA must give to the licensee:

  (a)   written notice of its intention; and

  (b)   a reasonable opportunity to make representations to the ACMA in relation to the proposed action; and

  (c)   publish the proposed changes in the Gazette .

  (3)   This section does not allow the ACMA to vary or revoke a condition set out in Part   5 of Schedule   2.

  (4)   If the ACMA varies or revokes a condition or imposes a new condition, the ACMA must publish the variation, the fact of the revocation or the new condition, as the case may be, in the Gazette .

  (5)   Action taken under subsection   (1) must not be inconsistent with:

  (a)   determinations and clarifications under section   19; or

  (b)   conditions set out in Part   5 of Schedule   2; or

  (c)   if the licence is a CTV licence--any conditions imposed on the licence by or under section   87A.


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