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BROADCASTING LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 146 of 1988 - SECT 50

Conversion of re-broadcasting and re-transmission licences
50. (1) Where a person holds a re-broadcasting licence or a re-transmission
licence, the Minister may grant the person a retransmission permit under
section 89DA of the Broadcasting Act 1942 in substitution for the licence.

(2) For the purposes of:

   (a)  the grant of a retransmission permit pursuant to subsection (1); and

   (b)  the application of the Broadcasting Act 1942 in relation to a
        retransmission permit granted pursuant to subsection (1); the
        amendments made by sections 15, 16 and 36, subsection 48 (2),
        section 49 and Schedules 2, 4 and 5 shall be taken to commence on the
        twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal
        Assent.

(3) Where the licence is a re-broadcasting licence, the retransmission permit
shall be a permit of the kind referred to in paragraph 89DA (5) (a) of the
Broadcasting Act 1942.

(4) Where the licence is a re-transmission licence, the retransmission permit
shall be a permit of the kind referred to in paragraph 89DA (5) (b) of the
Broadcasting Act 1942.

(5) The Minister may grant a retransmission permit to a person pursuant to
subsection (1) without receiving an application from the person for the grant
of the permit.

(6) Where a permit is granted pursuant to subsection (1) in substitution for a
licence, the licence ceases to have effect when the permit commences to have
effect.

(7) In this section:

"re-broadcasting licence" means a re-broadcasting licence within the meaning
of the Broadcasting Act 1942 as in force immediately before the commencement
of this subsection;

"re-transmission licence" means a re-transmission licence within the meaning
of the Broadcasting Act 1942 as in force immediately before the commencement
of this subsection. 


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