Broadcasting Services Amendment Act 1997 (Cth)

Broadcasting Services Amendment Act 1997

No. 115, 1997

An Act to amend the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, and for related purposes

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Broadcasting Services Amendment Act 1997

No. 115, 1997

An Act to amend the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, and for related purposes

[Assented to 7 July 1997]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting Services Amendment Act 1997.

2Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992

1

At the end of the title

Add “, and for related purposes”.

2

After paragraph 158(d)

Insert:

1. (da)

   to conduct investigations as directed by the Minister under section 171; and

3

Section 171

Repeal the section, substitute:

171Minister may direct ABA to conduct an investigation

1. (1)

   The Minister may direct the ABA in writing to investigate any matter with respect to which the Parliament is given power to make laws by paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution.

2. (2)

   Without limiting subsection (1), the Minister may direct the ABA to investigate:

   1. (a)

      any matter that the Minister is satisfied should be investigated in the interests of the due administration of this Act; or

   2. (b)

      any matter relating to the future regulation or operation of a telecommunications service.

3. (3)

   In this section:

telecommunications service has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1991.

4

Section 172

Omit “for the purposes of the performance or exercise of any of its functions and powers”.

5

Saving

If, immediately before the commencement of this Act, the ABA was conducting, or was about to conduct, an investigation at the direction of the Minister under section 171 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 as then in force, that Act as amended by this Act applies to the investigation as if the direction to conduct the investigation had been given by the Minister under section 171 of that Act as so amended.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 10 October 1996

House of Representatives on 25 June 1997]

(130/96)