Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BROADCASTING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 146 of 1988 - SECT 16

16. Section 6B of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Use of telegraph lines for retransmission of programs

"6B. (1) A person shall not use a telegraph line to transmit a program
broadcast or transmitted by the Corporation or the Service unless:

   (a)  the telegraph line is erected upon private land or within a private
        building;

   (b)  the transmission is made for the purpose of broadcasting the program;

   (c)  the transmission is made in the course of a telephone call between
        that person and another person; or

   (d)  the transmission is authorised by a retransmission permit.

"(2) A person shall not use a telegraph line to transmit a program broadcast
or transmitted by a licensee unless:

   (a)  the telegraph line is erected upon private land or within a private
        building;

   (b)  the transmission terminates at a place within the licence's service
        area; (c) the transmission is made for the purpose of broadcasting the
        program;

   (d)  the transmission is made in the course of a telephone call between
        that person and another person; or

   (e)  the transmission is authorised by a retransmission permit.

"(3) Examples of the operation of this section and section 89DA are set out in
the Schedule.".