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BROADCASTING AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1991 No. 183 of 1991 - SECT 12

Minister may revise service specifications before grant of licence
12. Section 83F of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting paragraph (1)(d) and substituting the following paragraph:
  "(d)   this subsection or subsection (1A);";


   (b)  by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

"(1A) If, before the grant of a supplementary radio licence:

   (a)  the Minister, on the Tribunal's recommendation, determines that the
        licence's service area is to be smaller than, but wholly within, the
        service area of a commercial radio licence to which it would be
        related; and

   (b)  no determination under this subsection has previously been made in
        relation to the supplementary radio licence; the Minister must:

   (c)  revoke the service specifications determined in relation to the
        supplementary radio licence under subsection 82A(4) or subsection (1)
        of this section; and

   (d)  determine that new service specifications specified in the
        determination are the service specifications to which the
        supplementary radio licence is to be subject.";

   (c)  by omitting paragraph (2)(a) and substituting the following paragraph:
  "(a)   if the licence is a supplementary radio licence - whichever of the
following provisions under which the specifications were last determined:

   (i)  subsection 82A(4);

   (ii) subsection (1);

   (iii) subsection (1A);";
(d) by inserting in subsection (3) "or (1A)" after "(1)". 


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