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BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 121B

Definitions

    In this Part:

"licence area" means a licence area of a commercial television broadcasting licence.

"metropolitan commercial television broadcasting licensee" means a commercial television broadcasting licensee whose licence area is a metropolitan licence area.

"metropolitan licence area" means a licence area in which is situated the General Post Office of the capital city of:

  (a)   New South Wales; or

  (b)   Victoria; or

  (c)   Queensland; or

  (d)   Western Australia; or

  (e)   South Australia.

"prime viewing hours" means the hours:

  (a)   beginning at 6 pm each day or, if another time is prescribed, beginning at that prescribed time each day; and

  (b)   ending at 10.30 pm on the same day or, if another time is prescribed, ending at that prescribed time on the same day.

"program" item means a television program, but does not include:

  (a)   advertising or sponsorship matter (whether or not of a commercial kind); or

  (b)   a news program that:

  (i)   is not a regularly scheduled news program; and

  (ii)   is solely or principally about a matter of national significance; or

  (c)   a program that covers an Olympic Games that is being held at the time the program is transmitted; or

  (d)   a program that covers a Paralympic Games that is being held at the time the program is transmitted; or

  (e)   a program that covers a Commonwealth Games that is being held at the time the program is transmitted.

"regional area" means an area that is not part of a metropolitan licence area.

"related body corporate" has the same meaning as in the Corporations Act 2001 .



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