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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 135ZZZN Request for payment of equitable remuneration

COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 135ZZZN

Request for payment of equitable remuneration

  (1)   If a remuneration notice is or has been in force, the collecting society to which the notice was given may, by written notice given to the relevant satellite BSA licensee, request the satellite BSA licensee to pay to the society, within a reasonable time after the date of the notice, the amount of equitable remuneration specified in the notice.

  (2)   The amount specified in the notice must be an amount payable under section   135ZZZK for re - broadcasts made by the satellite BSA licensee while the remuneration notice is or was in force.

  (3)   Subsection   (1) has effect subject to subsection   (4).

  (4)   If an amount specified in a request under subsection   (1) is not paid in accordance with the request, it may be recovered from the satellite BSA licensee by the collecting society in:

  (a)   the Federal Court of Australia; or

  (b)   any other court of competent jurisdiction;

as a debt due to the society.