Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BROADCASTING AMENDMENT ACT (No. 3) 1987 No. 184 of 1987 - SECT 42

42. Section 99A of the Principal Act is amended:

   (a)  by omitting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsections:

"(6) Immediately after giving a direction under subsection (1) for the grant
of a new system licence, the Minister shall grant to the licensee a licence
warrant in respect of the new system licence under section 89D of the amended
Act.

"(6A) For the purpose only of enabling the grant of a licence warrant in
accordance with subsection (6), the new system licence shall be deemed to be
granted to the licensee when the Minister gives the direction under subsection
(1).

"(6B) A licence warrant granted in accordance with subsection (6) comes into
force on the day on which the Tribunal grants the new system licence under
subsection (1)."; and

   (b)  by inserting after subsection (8) the following subsection:

"(8A) Where:

   (a)  the Tribunal has commenced or commences an inquiry in relation to an
        old system licence; and

   (b)  before the inquiry is completed, the Tribunal grants a new system
        licence to the licensee under subsection (1) in substitution for the
        old system licence;
the following provisions have effect:

   (c)  the inquiry may be completed and the Tribunal may make decisions in
        the course of, or as a result of, the inquiry as if the old system
        licence continued in force after the grant of the new system licence;

   (d)  the Tribunal may make, without holding further inquiries, any decision
        in relation to the new system licence that the Tribunal could make in
        relation to the old system licence under paragraph (c).".