Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 4

  (1)   The Parliament intends that different levels of regulatory control be applied across the range of broadcasting services, broadcasting video on demand services, datacasting services and online content services according to the degree of influence that different types of broadcasting services, broadcasting video on demand services, datacasting services and online content services are able to exert in shaping community views in Australia.

  (2)   The Parliament also intends that broadcasting services, broadcasting video on demand services and datacasting services in Australia be regulated in a manner that, in the opinion of the ACMA:

  (a)   enables public interest considerations to be addressed in a way that does not impose unnecessary financial and administrative burdens on providers of broadcasting services, broadcasting video on demand services and datacasting services; and

  (b)   will readily accommodate technological change; and

  (c)   encourages:

  (i)   the development of broadcasting technologies, broadcasting video on demand technologies and datacasting technologies, and their application; and

  (ii)   the provision of services made practicable by those technologies to the Australian community.

  (3AB)   The Parliament also intends that gambling promotional content provided on online content services be regulated in a manner that:

  (a)   enables public interest considerations in relation to gambling promotional content to be addressed in a way that does not impose unnecessary financial and administrative burdens on the providers of online content services; and

  (b)   will readily accommodate technological change; and

  (c)   encourages the provision of online content services to the Australian community; and

  (d)   encourages the development of technologies relating to online content services.

  (3A)   This section does not apply to Part   8B (which deals with international broadcasting services).

  (4)   In this section:

"broadcasting video on demand service" has the same meaning as in Part   9E.

"gambling promotional content" has the same meaning as in Schedule   8.

"online content service" has the same meaning as in Schedule   8.

"online content service provider" has the same meaning as in Schedule   8.