Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1992 - SECT 6

             (1)  Notwithstanding anything contained in the new Act, a broadcasting service provided, immediately before the commencement of this Act, for remote Aboriginal community purposes referred to in subsection 81B(7) of the Broadcasting Act in relation to a community declared, under subsection 81B(9) of the Broadcasting Act, to be a remote Aboriginal community is taken to be a service provided under a community broadcasting licence.

             (2)  A community broadcasting licence is taken to have been granted, on that commencement, in respect of each service to which subsection (1) applies, to:

                     (a)  the incorporated media association representing the Aboriginal community for which that service is provided; or

                     (b)  if there is no such association—the incorporated community council, however described, representing that community.