EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO. 125
ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968
COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Section 249 of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters that are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed. Subparagraph 91(a)(iii) of the Act provides that copyright subsists in a television broadcast made from a place in Australia by any prescribed person who is the holder of a transmitter licence under the Radiocommunications Act 1983.
Satellite Leisure Services Pty Limited and Sky Channel Pty Ltd, each being the holder of a transmitter licence, have sought to be prescribed for the purposes of subparagraph 91(a)(iii). The main effect of prescription is that copyright would subsist in any broadcast made by the licensee.
Regulations have accordingly been made prescribing -
Satellite Leisure Services Pty Limited
Sky Channel Pty Ltd
for the purposes of subparagraph 91(a)(iii) of the Act.