Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BROADCASTING (OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL) ACT 1989 No. 31 of 1989 - SECT 3

3. Section 89T of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection
(8) the following subsection:

"(8A) Where:

   (a)  a licence (in this subsection called the 'new system licence') is, or
        has at any time been, granted under section 99 or 99A of the
        Broadcasting and  Television Amendment Act 1985 in substitution for
        another licence or other licences (in this subsection called the 'old
        system licence or licences'); and

   (b)  the Minister makes a declaration under subsection (2) in relation to
        the new system licence; subsection (8) applies to the new system
        licence as if:

   (c)  the new system licence had been granted immediately before 29 October
        1987; and

   (d)  the service area of the new system licence, at any time when the old
        system licence or any of the old system licences was in force, had
        been the same as the service area, at that time, of the old system
        commercial broadcasting station licence, or old system commercial
        television station licence, for which the new system licence was
        substituted.".