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BROADCASTING AMENDMENT ACT (No. 3) 1987 No. 184 of 1987 - SECT 31

Special provisions relating to advertisements
31. Section 100 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (6) and
substituting the following subsections:

"(6) A licensee shall not broadcast an advertisement relating to a medicine
unless the text of the proposed advertisement has been approved:

   (a)  by the Secretary to the Department of Community Services and Health
        under subsection (6B); or

   (b)  by the Minister on appeal to the Minister under this section.

"(6A) A person may apply, in writing, to the Secretary to the Department of
Community Services and Health for approval of the text of a proposed
advertisement relating to a medicine.

"(6B) Where an application is made under subsection (6A), the Secretary to the
Department of Community Services and Health may, in writing, approve or
disapprove the text.

"(6C) Where the Secretary to the Department of Community Services and Health
approves or disapproves the text of a proposed advertisement relating to a
medicine, the Secretary shall give the applicant written notice of the
approval or disapproval.

"(6D) Where:

   (a)  an application is made under subsection (6A) for approval of the text
        of a proposed advertisement relating to a medicine; and

   (b)  the period of 60 days commencing on the day on which the application
        is made ends without the Secretary to the Department of Community
        Services and Health having given the applicant written notice of the
        Secretary's approval or disapproval of the text; the Secretary shall
        be deemed to have approved the text under subsection (6B) at the end
        of that period.". 


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