Broadcasting (Retransmission Permits and Temporary Transmission Permits) Fees Act 1988

No. 143 of 1988

An Act to provide for the payment of fees in respect of certain permits granted under the Broadcasting Act 1942

[Assented to 26 December 1988]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting (Retransmission Permits and Temporary Transmission Permits) Fees Act 1988.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on 1 March 1989.

Incorporation of Broadcasting Act 1942

3. The Broadcasting Act 1942 is incorporated with this Act and shall be read as one with this Act.

Fees in respect of retransmission permits and temporary transmission permits

4. There are payable to the Commonwealth by the holder of a retransmission permit or a temporary transmission permit, by way of tax in respect of the permit, fees in accordance with section 5.

Fees on grant and renewal

5. (1) There is payable on the grant of a retransmission permit, not being a grant by way of the renewal of the permit, a fee of an amount ascertained in accordance with the regulations.

(2) There is payable on the renewal of a retransmission permit a fee of an amount ascertained in accordance with the regulations.

(3) There is payable on the grant of a temporary transmission permit a fee of an amount ascertained in accordance with the regulations.

Regulations

6. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters:

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed in carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 28 September 1988

Senate on 22 November 1988]