EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Regulations (Amendment)
Statutory Rule No. 17 of 1989
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Telecommunications and Aviation Support
Section 17 of the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which, by the Act, are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Section 4 of the Act provides that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) shall broadcast parliamentary proceedings over a national broadcasting station in each State capital city and Newcastle, and over such other national broadcasting stations as are prescribed.
Regulation 2 of the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Regulations previously provided that the medium wave national broadcasting station in the Australian Capital Territory known as “2CY” was prescribed for the purposes of section 4 of the Act.
The Minister and the Joint Committee on the Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings agreed to the ABC proposal to transfer the broadcasting of parliamentary proceedings to the ABC’s standby transmitter network from the beginning of the Autumn Sittings of Parliament in 1989.
The amending regulation substitutes a new regulation 2 to provide that the national broadcasting station in the Australian Capital Territory known as ‘2PB’ is prescribed for the purposes of section 4 of the Act.