BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 103ZB Channel provider and part - channel provider to lodge annual return

BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 103ZB

  (1)   If a person is a channel provider or a part - channel provider in relation to one or more subscription TV drama services provided by a licensee during a financial year, the person must, within 60 days after the end of that financial year, give to the ACMA a return, in the approved form, containing such information as is required by that form in relation to the application of this Division in connection with those services.

  (2)   A person commits an offence if:

  (a)   the person is subject to a requirement under subsection   (1); and

  (b)   the person intentionally contravenes that requirement.

Penalty:   1,000 penalty units.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   a person is a channel provider or a part - channel provider in relation to one or more subscription TV drama services provided by a licensee during a financial year; and

  (b)   the person contravenes subsection   (1) in relation to the financial year;

the ACMA must inform the licensee, in writing, of that contravention as soon as practicable after the ACMA becomes aware of that contravention.

  (4)   A reference in this section to an approved form is a reference to a form approved, in writing, by the ACMA for the purposes of the provision in which the expression appears.