Broadcasting and Television (Consequential Amendments) Act 1985 (Cth)

Broadcasting and Television (Consequential Amendments) Act 1985

No. 67 of 1985

An Act to make certain amendments in consequence of the enactment of the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1985

[Assented to 5 June 1985]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting and Television (Consequential Amendments) Act 1985.

Commencement 2. This Act shall come into operation on 1 January 1986.

Amendment of Acts 3. The Acts specified in the Schedule are amended as set out in the Schedule.

Transitional 4. (1) Notwithstanding the amendments made by section 3, where an Act amended by that section would, but for the amendments, have applied to or in relation to an old system licence, the holder of an old system licence or a station operated under an old system licence, that Act continues so to apply. (2) In this section, "old system licence" has the same meaning as in Part III of the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1985.

SCHEDULE Section 3

AMENDMENT OF ACTS

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

Section 3 (definitions of "national broadcasting translator station licence" and "national television translator station licence")— Omit the definitions.

Section 26— Omit "and Television".

Section 73 (definition of "transmitting station")— (a) Omit "national broadcasting translator station licence", substitute "re-broadcasting licence under the Broadcasting Act 1942". (b) Omit "national television translator station licence", substitute "re-broadcasting licence under the Broadcasting Act 1942".

Sub-section 78 (3)— Omit "and Television".

Section 79— Omit "and Television".

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

Sub-section 287 (1) (definition of "broadcaster")— Omit the definition, substitute the following definition: " 'broadcaster' means— (a) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation constituted under the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983; (b) the Special Broadcasting Service established by Part IIIa of the Broadcasting Act 1942; or (c) the holder of a licence within the meaning of the Broadcasting Act 1942, other than a re-broadcasting licence or a re-transmission licence within the meaning of that Act;".