AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION.

No. 59 of 1940.

An Act to amend section twenty-six of the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932.

[Assented to 22nd August, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1940.

(2.) The Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932-1940.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty.

Australian Broadcasting Commission Fund.

3. Section twenty-six of the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932 is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-sections:—

“(2.) The amount referred to in the last preceding sub-section shall, in respect of the licence fee received in respect of each broadcast listener’s licence in force on or after the first day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty, be the aggregate of the following amounts:—

(a) One shilling for each calendar month prior to that date during which the licence was in force; and

(b) Tenpence for each calendar month after the thirty-first day of August, One thousand nine hundred and forty, during which the licence is in force.

“(2a.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-section, every broadcast listener’s licence shall be deemed to have been issued, on the first day of the calendar month of issue and to cease to be in force on the expiration of the period of twelve calendar months commencing on that day.”.