Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 66 of 1985 - SECT 8

8. After section 6A of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted
in Part IA: Unauthorized use of telegraph lines for re-transmission of
programs

"6B. A person shall not use a telegraph line (not being a telegraph line
erected upon private land or within a private building) for the purpose of
transmitting a program, being a program broadcast or transmitted by the
Corporation, the Service or a licensee, except in accordance with a
re-transmission licence or for the purpose of the broadcasting of that
program. Transmissions for broadcast by Aussat satellite

"6C. A person shall not transmit radio programs or television programs to an
Aussat satellite (wherever it is) with a view to the programs being
transmitted by a radiocommunications transmitter in the satellite to the
general public unless the operation of the transmitter for the purpose of the
transmission of those programs to the general public is authorized by a
licence warrant.".