Australian Broadcasting Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1952. No. 13.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE BROADCASTING ACT 1942-1951.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Broadcasting Act 1942-1951.

Dated this thirteenth day of February, 1952.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Australian Broadcasting Regulations.

Citation.

1. Regulation 1 of the Australian Broadcasting Regulations is amended by omitting ; the word “ Australian ”.

Definitions.

2. Regulation 3 of the Broadcasting Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the definition of “ receiving appliance ” ; and

(b) by omitting the definition of “ the Act ” and inserting in its stead the following definition :—

“ ‘the Act’ means the Broadcasting Act 1942-1951.”.

Additional broadcast listeners’ licences.

3. Regulation 8 of the Broadcasting Regulations is repealed.

4. Regulation 9 of the Broadcasting Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Demonstration of receiving appliances to prospective purchasers.

“ 9. Where—

(a) the holder of a broadcast listener’s licence—

(i) manufactures or trades in broadcast receivers ; and

(ii) with the consent in writing of an officer thereto authorized by the Postmaster-General, establishes a broadcast receiver for demonstration purposes at the address of a prospective purchaser ;

(b) the broadcast receiver is established at that address—

(i) for a period of not more than seven days if that address is within twenty miles from a General Post Office in the capital city of a State ; or

(ii) in any other case, for a period of not more than fourteen days ; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1952.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 297.

5711.—Price 3d. 9/12.12.1951.

 

(c) an invoice or other document, indicating the date on which the broadcast receiver was established at that address for demonstration purposes, is affixed to the receiver during the period it is so established,

the receiver shall be deemed to be in the possession of the holder of the licence, and at the address specified in the licence, during the period it is so established for demonstration purposes.

Ante-dating of licences.

5. Regulation 10 of the Broadcasting Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation :—

“ (1.) Where a person applies for a broadcast listener’s licence and, during the period of twelve months immediately preceding the day on which he so applies, he used, maintained or had in his possession a broadcast receiver at a time when a broadcast listener’s licence did not apply to that receiver, the licence applied for may be dated as of the date on which he first so used, maintained or had in possession that broadcast receiver and shall remain in force for a period which expires twelve months after that date.”.

6. Regulation 12 of the Broadcasting Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Address of licensee.

“ 12. A holder of a broadcast listener’s licence shall, within two weeks after a change in his address, notify the Superintendent, Wireless Branch, Postmaster-General’s Department, in the State in which he resided before the change, of his new address, and the address so notified shall then be deemed to be the address specified in the licence.”.

Production of licence.

7. Regulation 13 of the Broadcasting Regulations is amended by omitting the word “ Minister ” and inserting in its stead the word “ Postmaster-General ”.

Inspection of receiving appliances.

8. Regulation 14 of the Broadcasting Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting the word “ Minister ” and inserting in its stead the word “ Postmaster-General ”; and

(b) by omitting the words “ receiving appliances ” and inserting in their stead the words “ broadcast receivers ”.

Interference to reception.

9. Regulation 16 of the Broadcasting Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ receiving appliance ” and inserting in their stead the words “ broadcast receiver ”.

10. Regulation 18 of the Broadcasting Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

Extension leads not allowed.

“ 18. A person shall not permit an extension lead to be taken from a broadcast receiver for the purpose of enabling broadcast programmes to be received at an address which is not specified in a broadcast listener’s licence.”.

 

Licensees who do not renew licences.

11. Regulation 19 of the Broadcasting Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the words “ Senior Radio Inspector ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Superintendent, Wireless Branch, Postmaster-General’s Department ”; and

(b) by omitting the words “seven days” and inserting in their stead the words “two weeks”.

12. The Broadcasting Regulations are amended by adding after regulation 20 the following regulations :—

Superintendent to be advised of sales, &c.

“ 21. When a person sells, hires, lends, leases or otherwise disposes of a broadcast receiver to another person, he shall, within one month after so doing, advise, in writing, the Superintendent, Wireless Branch, Postmaster-General’s Department, in the State in which the transaction took place, of the name and address of that other person.

Foreign tourists, &c., not required to hold licence.

“ 22. A person who is a foreign tourist resident in Australia for a period not exceeding six months, a Consul de Carrière, a High Commissioner or a member of a High Commissioner’s office is not required to hold a broadcast listener’s licence.

Application of licences to hospitals, &c.

“ 23. A broadcast listener’s licence granted to a public hospital or charitable institution shall be deemed to apply to any broadcast receiver used in any portion of the hospital or institution for the benefit of inmates of that hospital or institution.”.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.