Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Nothing in section 38, 40, 40A, 44, 45 or 49 applies to a prescribed publication of matter by a prescribed information provider, other than--
(a) a publication of matter in connection with--
(i) the supply or possible supply of goods or services; or
(ii) the promotion by any means of the supply or use of goods or services; or
(iii) the sale or grant, or possible sale or grant, of interests in land; or
(iv) the promotion by any means of the sale or grant of interests in land;
where--
(v) the goods or services were relevant goods or services, or the interests in land were relevant interests in land, in relation to the prescribed information provider; or
(vi) the publication was made on behalf of, or under a contract, arrangement or understanding with--
(A) a person who supplies goods or services of that kind, or who sells or grants interests of that kind in land; or
(B) a body corporate that is related to a body corporate that supplies goods or services of that kind, or that sells or grants interests of that kind in land; or
(b) a publication of an advertisement.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a publication by a prescribed information provider is a prescribed publication if--
(a) in any case--the publication was made by the prescribed information provider in the course of carrying on a business of providing information; or
(b) in the case of a person who is a prescribed information provider because of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition prescribed information provider in subsection (3) (whether or not the person is also a prescribed information provider under another operation of that definition)--the publication was by way of a radio or television broadcast by the prescribed information provider.
(3) In this section--
consortium means an association of corporations.
prescribed information provider means a person who carries on a business of providing information, and includes--
(a) a person to whom, or each of the members of a consortium to which, a broadcasting or television licence has been granted under a law of the Commonwealth; and
(b) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; and
(c) the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation.
relevant goods or services, in relation to a prescribed information provider, means goods or services of a kind supplied by the prescribed information provider or, where the prescribed information provider is a body corporate, by a body corporate that is related to the prescribed information provider.
relevant interests in land, for a prescribed information provider, means land interests of a kind sold or granted by the prescribed information provider or, if the prescribed information provider is a body corporate, by a body corporate related to the prescribed information provider.