Broadcasting and Television

No. 69 of 1968

An Act to amend section 128 of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942–1967.

[Assented to 3 October 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Broadcasting and Television Act 1968.

(2.) The Broadcasting and Television Act 1942–1967 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942–1968.

Commencement.

2.—(1.) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2.) The amendments of the Principal Act effected by the next succeeding section apply in relation to—

(a) a licence granted for a period commencing on or after the first day of October, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight; and

(b) the renewal of a licence where the licence or the last preceding renewal of the licence, as the case may be, expires or has expired on or after that date.

Licence fees.

3. Section 128 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the words “Five dollars fifty cents” and inserting in their stead the words “Six dollars fifty cents”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) the words “Two dollars eighty cents” and inserting in their stead the words “Three dollars thirty cents”;

(c) by omitting from sub-section (1a.) the words “Twelve dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “ Fourteen dollars”; and

(d) by omitting from sub-section (1b.) the words “Seventeen dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty dollars”.