Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (DEREGULATION) ACT 2015 - SCHEDULE 8

Broadcasting Services Act 1992

1   After subsection   43C(3)

Insert:

Changes in licence area populations not to put persons in breach of condition

  (4)   If:

  (a)   the ACMA makes a new determination of the licence area population of a licence area or of the population of Australia; and

  (b)   as a result of the determination, a person would be in breach of the condition;

the condition continues to apply to the person as if the previous determination remained in force.

2   Section   52

Omit "subsection   53(1) or 55(1) or (2)", substitute "a provision of Division   2 or 3".

3   Application of amendments

The amendments of sections   43C and 52 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 made by this Schedule apply in relation to determinations made by the ACMA on or after the day this item commences.