Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Act 2014

No. 102, 2014

An Act to amend the Meteorology Act 1955, and for related purposes

Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Act 2014

No. 102, 2014

An Act to amend the Meteorology Act 1955, and for related purposes

[Assented to 11 September 2014]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Act 2014.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—General amendments

Meteorology Act 1955

1 After section 7

Insert:

7A Advertising

(1) The Bureau may include advertising on, in or in connection with any of its services.

(2) The Director must develop and publish guidelines relating to advertising.

(3) Guidelines made under subsection (2) are not a legislative instrument.

2 Section 8

After “advice,”, insert “services,”.

3 Validation

To avoid doubt, any act or thing done in connection with the inclusion of advertising on any of the Bureau’s services before the commencement of this item is, and is taken always to have been, as valid as that act or thing would have been if the act or thing had been done after the commencement of this item.

Part 2—Technical amendments

Meteorology Act 1955

4 Subsection 4(2)

Omit “shall”.

5 Subsection 4(2)

Omit “cease”, substitute “ceases”.

6 Subsection 5(1)

Omit “shall”, substitute “is to”.

7 Subsection 5(2)

Omit “shall” (first occurring), substitute “is to”.

8 Subsection 5(2)

Omit “shall” (last occurring), substitute “will”.

9 Subsection 6(2)

Omit “shall”, substitute “must”.

10 At the end of paragraph 6(2)(a)

Add “and”.

11 At the end of paragraphs 7(1)(a) and (b)

Add “and”.

12 Subsection 7(2)

Omit “the last preceding subsection”, substitute “subsection (1)”.