Television
Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1982
No. 156 of 1982
An
Act to amend the Television Stations
Licence Fees Act 1964
[Assented to 31 December 1982]
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 Television
Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1982.
(2) The Television Stations Licence Fees Act 19641is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on the day on which the Broadcasting
and Television Amendment Act 1982 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 inserting in sub-section (3) “(including that
sub-section as applying by virtue of section 105p
of that Act)” after “Broadcasting and
Television Act 1942”.
6. The Principal Act is
amended by inserting at the end thereof the following section:
Application
of Act to supplementary television stations, &c.
“8. (1) This Act applies
to and in relation to a supplementary television station, a supplementary
television licence and the holder of such a licence in like manner as it
applies to and in relation to a commercial television station, a licence in
respect of a commercial television station and the holder of such a licence,
and, for the purposes of that application—
(a) a reference to a commercial
television station shall be read as a reference to a supplementary television
station;
(b) a reference to a licence in
respect of a commercial television station shall be read as a reference to a
supplementary television licence; and
(c) a reference to the licensee of
a commercial television station shall be read as a reference to the licensee of
a supplementary television station.
“(2) Notwithstanding the
definition of ‘gross earnings’ in sub-section 4 (1), in relation to a
supplementary television 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 televising 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 televised from the
station.”.
Title
7. The title to the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “Commercial” and substituting “certain”.
NOTE
1. No. 118,
1964, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 93, 1966; Nos. 103 and 189,
1976; No. 96, 1977; No. 51, 1978; and No. 169, 1981.