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BROADCASTING SERVICES AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 2) 1999

   1998-99

   The Parliament of the
   Commonwealth of Australia

   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


   Presented and read a first time


   Broadcasting Services Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1999
   No. , 1999

   (Communications, Information Technology and the Arts)



   A Bill for an Act to amend the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, and for
   related purposes

   ISBN: 0642 404941

   Contents

   A Bill for an Act to amend the Broadcasting Services Act 1992, and for
   related purposes

   The Parliament of Australia enacts:

      1 Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting Services Amendment Act (No.
   2) 1999.

      2 Commencement

   This Act commences on the day on which it 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   repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned,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--Broadcasting Services Act 1992

   1 At the end of clause 61 of Schedule 4

   Add:

   (4) Despite subsection (1), the ABA may not make a determination under
   paragraph (1)(a) in relation to expenses incurred:

   (a) by it under the commercial television conversion scheme; and

   (b) during the period starting on the day on which this subsection
   commences and ending on 31 December 2001.