Wireless Telegraphy Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 24.

REGULATION UNDER THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT 1905-1919.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulation under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1905-1919, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated the ninth day of March, 1927.

STONEHAVEN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. G. GIBSON,

Postmaster-General.

 

Amendment of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1924, No. 101, as amended to this date.)

After regulation 74 of the Wireless Telegraphy Regulations, the following is inserted:—

Supply of programmes to be broadcasted.

“74a.—(1.) Upon receipt of an application in writing from the proprietor of any registered newspaper the licensee of any Class Astation shall, within three days after the day upon which the application is received, supply, for the purpose of publication in the newspaper, one copy of the programme of the items to be broadcasted by the station on each of the seven days following the day upon which the copy is supplied.

“(2.) Programmes supplied in pursuance of this regulation may be published in any registered newspaper.

“(3.) In this regulation, ‘registered newspaper’ means a newspaper registered under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1923.

“(4.) Subject to the approval of the Postmaster-General, the licensee may make a reasonable charge to cover the cost of postage and of supplying copies of programmes in pursuance of this regulation.”

 

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