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BROADCASTING AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1991 No. 183 of 1991 - SECT 9

Simultaneous commercial radio licence and supplementary radio licence inquiries
9. Section 82AAA of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by inserting in paragraph (2)(d) "subject to subsection (2A)," before

"the Tribunal" (first occurring);

   (b)  by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection:

"(2A) If:

   (a)  the Tribunal is simultaneously considering the application for the
        grant of a supplementary radio licence and applications for a
        commercial radio licence; and

   (b)  the service area of the supplementary radio licence overlaps that of
        the commercial radio licence; and

   (c)  the Tribunal determines under paragraph 83B(7)(c) that only one
        additional radio licence should be granted in relation to those areas;
        the Tribunal must give preference to the applications for the
        commercial radio licence:

   (d)  by first considering the applications for the commercial radio
        licence; and

   (e)  if an applicant for the commercial radio licence is a suitable person
        to be granted that licence - by granting the commercial radio licence
        and not the supplementary radio licence.". 


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