Broadcasting
(Retransmission Permits and Temporary Transmission Permits) Fees Act 1988
No.
143 of 1988
An
Act to provide for the payment of fees in respect of certain permits granted
under the Broadcasting Act 1942
[Assented to 26 December 1988]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as
follows:
Short
title
1. This Act may be cited
as the Broadcasting (Retransmission
Permits and Temporary Transmission Permits) Fees Act 1988.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on 1
March 1989.
Incorporation
of Broadcasting Act 1942
3. The Broadcasting Act 1942 is incorporated
with this Act and shall be read as one with this Act.
Fees
in respect of retransmission permits and temporary transmission permits
4. There are payable to
the Commonwealth by the holder of a retransmission permit or a temporary
transmission permit, by way of tax in respect of the permit, fees in accordance
with section 5.
Fees
on grant and renewal
5. (1) There is payable on the grant of a retransmission permit, not
being a grant by way of the renewal of the permit, a fee of an amount
ascertained in accordance with the regulations.
(2) There is payable on the
renewal of a retransmission permit a fee of an amount ascertained in accordance
with the regulations.
(3) There is payable on the
grant of a temporary transmission permit a fee of an amount ascertained in
accordance with the regulations.
Regulations
6. The Governor-General
may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters:
(a)
required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b)
necessary or convenient to be prescribed in carrying out or giving effect to
this Act.
[Minister’s
second reading speech made in—
House
of Representatives on 28 September 1988
Senate
on 22 November 1988