BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (No. 2).

No. 65 of 1956.

An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act 1942–1954, as amended by the Broadcasting and Television Act 1956, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 28th September, 1956.]

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 (No. 2) 1956.

(2.)  The Broadcasting Act 1942–1954, as amended by the Broadcasting and Television Act 1956, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  Section one of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1956 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(4.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942–1956.

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 paragraphs (a) and (b) of section four of this Act apply in relation to—

(a) a broadcast listener’s licence granted for a period commencing on or after the first day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-six ; and

(b) the renewal of a broadcast listener’s 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.

(3.)  The amendment of the Principal Act effected by paragraph (c) of section four of this Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.

Amendment of s. 54 of Broadcasting and Television Act 1956.

3.—(1.)  Section fifty-four of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1956 is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (a) the word “and”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) the word “and” (last occurring); and

(c) by omitting paragraph (c).

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(2.)  Section fifty-four of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1956, as amended by this Act, shall come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.

Licence Fees.

4.  Section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) the words “Two pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Two pounds fifteen shillings”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (3.) all the words before paragraph (a) and inserting in their stead the words “A broadcast listener’s licence, or a renewal of such a licence, may be granted, on payment of a fee of Ten shillings in the case of a licence specifying an address in Zone 1 or on payment of a fee of Seven shillings in the case of a licence specifying an address in Zone 2, to a pensioner who—”; and

(c) by inserting after sub-section (3.) the following sub-section :—

“(3a.) A television viewer’s licence, or a renewal of such a licence, may be granted, on payment of one-quarter of the fee otherwise payable, to a pensioner referred to in the last preceding sub-section.”.