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News Media Bargaining (Administration) Act 2026
No. 77, 2026
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C2026A00077
26 August 2026
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Simplified outline of this Act
4 Extension to external Territories
5 Extra-territorial application
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Part 2—Definitions
6 Definitions
7 Meaning of significant social media or search service
8 Meaning of social media service
9 Meaning of search service
10 Meaning of relevant Australian digital advertising revenue
11 Meanings of registered news business corporate group and news business corporate group
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Part 3—Liability to pay charge
12 Simplified outline of this Part
13 Liability to pay charge
14 Amount of charge
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Part 4—Offsetting charge
15 Simplified outline of this Part
16 Effect of the charge offset
17 Who is entitled to the charge offset
18 Expenditure under commercial deals with Australian news media businesses
19 Expenditure under arbitrated agreements with Australian news media businesses
20 Amount of the charge offset
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Part 5—Anti-avoidance
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Division 1—Application and key concepts
21 Simplified outline of this Part
22 When this Part applies
23 When does an entity get a charge benefit from a scheme?
24 Matters to be considered in determining purpose or effect
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Division 2—Commissioner may negate effects of schemes for charge benefits
25 Commissioner may make declaration for purpose of negating avoider’s charge benefits
26 Commissioner may disregard scheme in making declarations
27 One declaration may cover several financial years
28 Commissioner must give copy of declaration to entity affected
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Part 6—Other matters
29 Translation of amounts into Australian currency
30 Review of the operation of this Act etc.
31 Rules