Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 146Q

  (1)   For the purposes of this Division, if:

  (a)   a national broadcaster has the right to televise live, in a coverage area, a particular designated series of events; and

  (b)   during a particular period, 2 or more events in that series (the simultaneous events ) wholly or partly overlap; and

  (c)   during that period, the national broadcaster televises live in that area one of those simultaneous events;

the national broadcaster is taken, during that period, to have televised live in that area the remainder of those simultaneous events.

Note:   For delayed televising in the Central - Western time zones, see section   146R.

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(c), a national broadcaster is taken to have televised live the whole of an event if the broadcaster televises live all but an insubstantial proportion of the event.

Note 1:   For example, in the case of the ABC, interruptions by way of news breaks, program promotions, announcements or brief crosses to other live events would amount to an insubstantial proportion of the event being televised.

Note 2:   For example, in the case of the SBS, interruptions by way of commercial breaks, news breaks, program promotions, announcements or brief crosses to other live events would amount to an insubstantial proportion of the event being televised.

  (3)   If a national broadcaster has a right to televise live a substantial proportion of a designated series of events, this section has effect, in relation to the national broadcaster, as if that proportion were a designated series of events in its own right.