Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1992 - SECT 5

             (1)  On the commencement of this Act:

                     (a)  each former commercial radio licence continues in force as a commercial radio broadcasting licence as if such a licence had been allocated to the holder under Part 4 of the new Act; and

                     (b)  each former commercial television licence continues in force as a commercial television broadcasting licence as if such a licence had been allocated to the holder under Part 4 of the new Act; and

                     (c)  each former public radio licence continues in force as a community broadcasting licence as if such a licence had been allocated to the holder under Part 6 of the new Act; and

                     (d)  each former remote radio licence continues in force as a commercial radio broadcasting licence as if such a licence had been allocated to the holder under Part 4 of the new Act; and

                     (e)  each former remote television licence continues in force as a commercial television broadcasting licence as if such a licence had been allocated to the holder under Part 4 of the new Act; and

                      (f)  each former supplementary radio licence continues in force as a commercial radio broadcasting licence as if such a licence had been allocated to the holder under Part 4 of the new Act.

             (2)  A broadcasting service provided immediately before the commencement of this Act under a former limited licence is, for the purposes of the new Act, taken to be an open narrowcasting service for the remainder of the former term of the licence.

             (3)  A radio broadcasting service that was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, being provided under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942 as in force immediately before the day fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(1) of the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1985 is, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), taken to be provided under a former commercial radio licence.