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• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to provide earlier access, in particular circumstances, to the digital commercial satellite television service known as the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) by: enabling VAST licensees to provide their digital commercial satellite television services to specified external territories; enabling third party digital retransmission services to be taken into account for administering the conditional access scheme for VAST services; requiring licensees in certain licence areas to nominate multiple places against which their time based broadcasting obligations will be assessed; and enabling the minister to vary the date for digital switchover in a licence area or when that area becomes a digital only local market area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television and Datacasting) Bill 2000

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  Date

  10 May 2000 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Collection of Datacasting Transmitter Licence Fees) Bill 2006

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  Date

  12 Oct 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Datacasting Transmitter Licence Fees Bill 2006, the bill amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to ensure compliance by channel A datacasting transmitter licence holders with licence fee payment and record keeping obligations. Also makes a consequential amendment to the

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Services (Safeguarding Local Content and Local Audience Needs) Amendment Bill 2003

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  Date

  03 Dec 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  LEES, Meg 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to require the Australian Broadcasting Authority to impose licence conditions on commercial television licensees in metropolitan areas, obliging them to provide locally-produced news, current affairs and other programming. 

  Bill

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

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  Date

  15 Feb 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to ensure that persons who re-transmit content provided by National Indigenous TV Limited (NITV Ltd) for transmission by Imparja Television are exempt from the regulatory requirements of the Act; and

  Copyright Act 1968

  to amend the statutory licence copyright collection scheme to apply it to re-transmissions of NITV Ltd program material. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill 2001

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  Date

  06 Dec 2000 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2002

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  Date

  23 Oct 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to provide for new licensing arrangements for community television services;

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  in relation to licensing arrangements for community broadcasting; and

  Broadcasting Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1992

  to repeal the remaining provisions of the

  Broadcasting Act 1942

  dealing with political advertisements which the High Court held invalid. Also contains saving, application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2001

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  Date

  05 Apr 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006

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  Date

  23 Jun 2005 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Radiocommunications Act 1992

  to provide a framework for the conversion of commercial television broadcasting services in regional and remote areas of Western Australia from analogue to digital; and to allow commercial television broadcasting licensees in remote licence areas to multi-channel their digital services, where they elect jointly, or one elects individually, to provide a third digital-only commercial service; and exempt such licensees from any mandatory high definition television quotas that might be applied in remote licence areas. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Broadcasting Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2002

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  Date

  25 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to delay the commencement date for high definition television programming obligations on commercial television broadcasting licensees and national broadcasters in mainland State capitals until 1 July 2003. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum