Broadcasting Services (Digital-Only Local Market Area for the Regional Victoria TV1 and Western Victoria TV1 Licence Areas) Determination (No. 1) 2011 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Broadcasting Services Act 1992

Broadcasting Services (Digital-Only Local Market Area for the Regional Victoria TV1 and Western Victoria TV1 Licence Areas) Determination (No.1) 2011

I, STEPHEN MICHAEL CONROY, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, make the following Determination under subclause 5F(1) of Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Dated        7 January 2011

STEPHEN CONROY

Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

1.         Name of Determination

This Determination is the Broadcasting Services (Digital-Only Local Market Area for the Regional Victoria TV1 and Western Victoria TV1 Licence Areas) Determination (No. 1) 2011.

2.         Commencement

This Determination commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3.         Definitions

In this Determination:

digital-only local market area has the same meaning given by clause 5F of Schedule 4 to the Act;

Hopetoun Broadcast Site is the location at 35 degrees 43 minutes 48 seconds south latitude and 142 degrees 21 minutes 29 seconds east longitude, which is known as the Broadcast Site Grain Silo Garrard St, Hopetoun, with the Site Identification Number 40690, as identified in the Register of Radiocommunications Licences;

local market area has the same meaning given by clause 5F of Schedule 4 to the Act;

Regional Victoria TV1 and Western Victoria TV1 licence areas is the area determined by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in Licence Area Plan: Regional Victoria Television made under subsection 26(1) of the Act;

Register of Radiocommunications Licences refers to the register established and maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority in accordance with section 143 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 and the Radiocommunications (Register of Radiocommunications Licences) Determination 1997; and

the Act means the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

4.         Determination

(a) For the purposes of Schedule 4 to the Act, the area within the Regional Victoria TV1 and Western Victoria TV1 licence areas that is within a 10km radius of the Hopetoun Broadcast Site is a local market area.

(b) For the purposes of Schedule 4 to the Act, the local market area specified under paragraph 4(a) is to become a digital-only local market area from and including 2 February 2011.