Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 43AB

Programs to be provided by metropolitan licensees

  (1)   A commercial television broadcasting licence for a metropolitan licence area is subject to the condition that, if:

  (a)   the licensee (the metropolitan licensee ) broadcasts a program in a metropolitan licence area on either of the following services (a metropolitan service ):

  (i)   a HDTV multi - channelled commercial television broadcasting service;

  (ii)   a SDTV multi - channelled commercial television broadcasting service; and

  (b)   before the program is broadcast, a section   38C licensee requests the metropolitan licensee to provide the section   38C licensee with the programs broadcast on the metropolitan service;

the metropolitan licensee must:

  (c)   provide the program to the section   38C licensee for broadcast by the section   38C licensee; and

  (d)   do so:

  (i)   simultaneously with the broadcast of that program on the metropolitan service; or

  (ii)   as soon as practicable after the broadcast of that program on the metropolitan service.

HDTV digital mode or SDTV digital mode

  (2)   A program must be provided under subsection   (1) by transmitting it:

  (a)   if subparagraph   (1)(a)(i) applies--in HDTV digital mode (within the meaning of Schedule   4); or

  (b)   if subparagraph   (1)(a)(ii) applies--in SDTV digital mode (within the meaning of Schedule   4).

Definitions

  (4)   In this section:

"HDTV multi-channelled commercial television broadcasting service" has the same meaning as in Schedule   4.

"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;

but does not include the licence area of a commercial television broadcasting licence allocated under section   38C.

"SDTV multi-channelled commercial television broadcasting service" has the same meaning as in Schedule   4.

" section 38C licensee" means the licensee of a commercial television broadcasting licence allocated under section   38C.