Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1976 No. 187 of 1976 - SECT 14

14. After Part IV of the Principal Act the following Part is inserted:- ''PART
IVA-THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE AND THE PUBLIC TELEVISION
SERVICE Grant of licences.
''111A. (1) Subject to this Act, the Minister may, on payment of the
prescribed fee, grant to a person a licence to operate a broadcasting station
or television station for one or more of the following purposes, as specified
in the licence:-

   (a)  to provide services for people within a specified area;

   (b)  to provide programs of a specified nature;

   (c)  to provide programs for a specified purpose.

''(2) A public broadcasting licence or public television licence shall not be
granted except to a corporation formed within the limits of the Commonwealth
or a Territory, not being a corporation the objects of which include the
acquisition of profit or gain for the benefit of its individual members.

''(3) A public broadcasting licence or public television licence may be
granted on such conditions, and in accordance with such form, as the Minister
determines.

''(4) It is a condition of a licence granted under this Part that the
broadcasting station or television station, as the case may be, is to be
operated only for the purpose or purposes specified in the licence in
accordance with sub-section (1).

''(5) The establishment, erection, maintenance and use of a public
broadcasting station or public television station in pursuance of a licence
under this Part shall be deemed not to be a contravention of the Wireless
Telegraphy Act 1905 or of the regulations under that Act. Application of Act.
''111B. (1) Subject to section 111A, the other provisions of this Act apply,
with such exceptions and subject to such modifications and adaptations as are
prescribed, in relation to public broadcasting stations, public television
stations, public broadcasting station licences, public television station
licences, the holders of such licences and the grant, renewal, suspension and
revocation of such licences as they apply in relation to commercial
broadcasting stations, commercial television stations, licences for such
stations, the holders of such licences and the grant, renewal, suspension and
revocation of such licences.

''(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) enables regulations to be made that would
affect the application of any provision of this Act to the extent that it
requires the holding of an inquiry.''.