Broadcasting
Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1981
No.
114 of 1981
An Act to amend
the Broadcasting Stations Licence Fees
Act 1964 to extend it to certain
licences
[Assented to 24
June 1981]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting
Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1981.
(2) The Broadcasting Stations
Licence Fees Act 19641 is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on the day on which section 12 of the Broadcasting and Television Amendment Act 1981 comes into
operation.
Incorporation
of Broadcasting and Television Act
3. Section 3 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “1942-1964” and substituting “1942”.
Licence
fees
4. Section 5 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “the next succeeding section” and
substituting “section 6”.
Amount
of fees
5. Section 6 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) “1942-1973” and
substituting “1942 (including that sub-section as applying by virtue of section
105p of that Act)”.
6. The Principal Act is
amended by inserting after section 7 the following section:
Application
of Act to supplementary broadcasting stations, supplementary licences and
supplementary licensees
“8. (1) This Act applies to and in
relation to a supplementary broadcasting station, a supplementary licence and
the holder of such a licence in like manner as it applies to and in relation to
a commercial broadcasting station, a licence in respect of a commercial
broadcasting station and the holder of such a licence, and, for the purposes of
that application—
(a)
a reference to a commercial broadcasting station shall be read as a reference
to a supplementary broadcasting station;
(b)
a reference to a licence in respect of a commercial broadcasting station shall
be read as a reference to a supplementary licence; and
(c)
a reference to the licensee of a commercial broadcasting station shall be read
as a reference to the licensee of a supplementary broadcasting station.
“(2) Notwithstanding the definition
of ‘gross earnings’ in sub-section 4 (1), in relation to a supplementary
licence to which sub-section 81 (6) of the Broadcasting
and Television Act 1942 applies, references in sections 6 and 7 to gross
earnings, in relation to the station to which the licence relates, in respect
of a period, are references to the aggregate amount of the gross earnings in
respect of the broadcasting from the station of advertisements or other matter
of all the persons who, at any time during that period, are co-owners of the
licence, including the gross earnings of those persons during that period in
respect of the provision by any or all of those persons of, or otherwise in
respect of, matter broadcast from the station.”.
Title
7. The title to the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “Commercial” and substituting “certain”.
NOTE
1. No. 119,
1964, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 93, 1966; No. 148, 1973; No.
188, 1976; No. 94, 1977; and No. 50, 1978.