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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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