Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsIn this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
"broadcast" means transmit by means of a broadcasting service.
"broadcasting service" means a service that delivers television programs or radio programs to persons having equipment appropriate for receiving that service, whether the delivery uses the radiofrequency spectrum, cable, optical fibre, satellite or any other means or a combination of those means, but does not include:
(a) a datacasting service; or
(b) a service that delivers programs using the internet, where the delivery does not use the broadcasting services bands.
"broadcasting services bands" has the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 .
"datacast" means transmit by means of a datacasting service.
"designated interactive gambling service advertisement" has the meaning given by Division 2.
"designated interactive gambling service provider" means a person who provides a designated interactive gambling service.
"display" includes continue to display.
"exempt library" means:
(a) a public library; or
(b) a library of a tertiary educational institution; or
(c) a library of an authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.
"government or political matters" means government or political matters relating to any level of government in Australia, and includes any of the following matters:
(a) participation in, association with and communications in relation to any election or appointment to public office;
(b) political views or public conduct relating to activities that have become the subject of political debate;
(c) the performance, conduct, capacity or fitness for office of a person elected or appointed to, or seeking election or appointment to, any public office;
(d) the actions or policies, or proposed actions or policies, of any government in Australia or any Australian political party.
"periodical" means an issue (however described) of a newspaper, magazine, journal, newsletter, or other similar publication, issues of which are published at regular or irregular intervals.
"program" has the same meaning as in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 .
"public place" means a place, or a part of a place, to which the public, or a section of the public, ordinarily has access, whether or not by payment or by invitation (including, for example, a shop, restaurant, hotel, cinema or club).
"publish" :
(a) in relation to a designated interactive gambling service advertisement, has the meaning given by Division 3; and
(b) in relation to something other than a designated interactive gambling service advertisement, has a meaning equally as broad as it has in relation to a designated interactive gambling service advertisement.
"section of the public" includes:
(a) the members of a particular club, society or organisation; and
(b) a group consisting only of persons with a common workplace or a common employer.
"workplace" means premises in which employees or contractors work, other than any part of such premises that is primarily used as a private dwelling.