Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT 1983 - SECT 31

             (1)  The Corporation shall not broadcast advertisements.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not prevent the Corporation, if the Board thinks fit, from broadcasting:

                     (a)  any announcement relating to any activity or proposed activity of the Corporation;

                     (b)  a program supplied by any organization or person engaged in artistic, literary, musical or theatrical production or in educational pursuits; or

                     (c)  a program supplied by any organization or person other than a program that is, in the opinion of the Corporation, being used as an advertisement;

or from broadcasting any matter the broadcasting of which is directed by the Minister pursuant to subsection 78(1).

             (3)  Subsection (1) does not apply to:

                     (a)  the broadcasting of any matter by the Corporation's international television service and its associated audio channels outside Australia; or

                     (b)  the broadcasting of any matter by the Corporation's international television service and its associated audio channels inside Australia that is merely incidental to the broadcasting of the matter outside Australia.