Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 74B

    In this Division:

"ACMA official" has the same meaning as in the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 .

"Australia" , when used in a geographical sense, includes all the external Territories.

"Australian media company" means:

  (a)   a company that holds a commercial television broadcasting licence; or

  (b)   a company that holds a commercial radio broadcasting licence; or

  (c)   a company that is:

  (i)   the publisher of a newspaper that is associated with the licence area of a commercial television broadcasting licence or a commercial radio broadcasting licence; and

  (ii)   a constitutional corporation.

"designated information" , in relation to a person, means:

  (a)   if the person is an individual:

  (i)   the person's date of birth; and

  (ii)   the country in which the person is ordinarily resident; and

  (b)   if the person is a corporation--the country in which the corporation was formed; and

  (c)   if the person is a trustee of a trust:

  (i)   the name of the trust; and

  (ii)   the country in which the trust was established; and

  (d)   if the person is a foreign government investor as the result of the application of paragraph   17(a) of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation   2015 to a separate government entity of a foreign country or a part of a foreign country--the foreign country or the part of the foreign country, as the case may be; and

  (e)   if the person is a foreign government investor wholly or partly as the result of the application of paragraph   17(b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation   2015 to a foreign government--the foreign government; and

  (f)   if the person is a foreign government investor wholly or partly as the result of the application of paragraph   17(b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation   2015 to a separate government entity of a foreign country or a part of a foreign country--the foreign country or the part of the foreign country, as the case may be; and

  (g)   the following contact details:

  (i)   the person's address;

  (ii)   the person's email address (if any);

  (iii)   the person's telephone number (if any).

"foreign government" has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 .

"foreign government investor" has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 .

"foreign person" has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 .

"foreign stakeholder" , in relation to an Australian media company, has the meaning given by section   74C.

"initial disclosure period" means the period of 6 months beginning at the commencement of this Division.

"person" includes a foreign person.

"separate government entity" has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 .