Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMUNICATIONS LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 69 of 1987 - SECT 19

19. After section 24 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Transmitter licences not to permit transmission of certain pay-television
programs

"24A. (1) In this section:
'domestic pay-television agreement' means a pay-television agreement the terms
of which permit, or do not preclude, the use of a television receiver to which
the agreement relates in domestic premises;
'pay-television agreement' means an agreement under which a television
receiver in the possession, or under the control, of a person is, for
consideration, to be enabled (whether or not by the modification or adaptation
of the television receiver) to receive television programs to be transmitted
by a radiocommunications transmitter operated by or on behalf of another
person (whether or not a party to the agreement).

"(2) The Minister shall not grant a licence under subsection 24 (1) that would
permit the holder of the licence to operate, or to permit the operation of, a
radiocommunications transmitter for the purpose of, or for purposes that
include the purpose of, the transmission of television programs pursuant to,
or the transmission of which is contemplated by, a domestic pay-television
agreement.

"(3) The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, determine that this section
shall cease to have effect from a day specified in the Proclamation, not being
a day before 1 September 1990.".