TELEVISION STATIONS LICENCE FEES AMENDMENT ACT 1978

No. 51 of 1978

An Act to amend the Television Stations Licence Fees Act 1964.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Television Stations Licence Fees Amendment Act 1978.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Amount of fees

3. Section 6 of the Television Stations Licence Fees Act 1964 is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2) “, and on the grant of a licence that is by way of renewal of a licence,” and substituting “(including any period of renewal or further renewal of the licence)”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) “or last preceding the commencement of the period for which the licence is renewed, as the case may be,”.

Application

4. On and after the date of commencement of this Act, the provisions of sub-section 6(2) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act extend to a licence granted before that date, whether or not it was renewed before that date.