Information about the Inquiry

Inquiry into the provisions of the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Anti-Siphoning) Bill 2004

Information about the Inquiry

The Senate has referred the provisions of this bill to the Committee for inquiry and report by 7 March 2004.

The purpose of the bill is to extend the automatic delisting period for events on the anti-siphoning list so that events are removed 12 weeks prior to their commencement.

The Committee invites written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form sent by email to ecita.sen@aph.gov.au. The email must include full postal address and contact details.

Alternatively, submissions may be sent to The Secretary, Senate Environment, Communications Information Technology and the Arts Legislation Committee Parliament House, CANBERRA ACT 2600, or faxed to 02 6277 5818.

Submission must be received by no later than Friday, 4 February 2005.

The terms of the bill and related explanatory material are available via the link above and notes on preparing submissions are available on the Committee's web site at:

https://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm

or by contacting the Committee secretariat as follows:

phone: 02 6277 3526,  fax: 02 6277 5818,  or email: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au

Submissions become committee documents and are made public only after a decision by the Committee. Persons making submissions must not release them without the approval of the Committee. Submissions are covered by parliamentary privilege but the unauthorised release of them is not.

Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to the Parliament House TTY number (02) 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. These tools are available at: http://access.adobe.com/. If you require any special arrangements in order to enable you to participate in a committee inquiry, please contact the committee secretary.

For further information, contact:

Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Environment, Communications and the Arts
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6277 3526
Fax: +61 2 6277 5818
Email: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au