REGULATIONS UNDER THE BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION ACT 1942-1972.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1972.
Dated this fourteenth day of September, 1972.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Postmaster-General.
Amendments of the Broadcasting and Television Regulations†
Commencement.
1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1973.
2. Regulation 13 of the Broadcasting and Television Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Condition: of hirer’s licences.
“13.—(1.) In this regulation, ‘hire’ has the same meaning as in section 126a of the Act.
“(2.) Subject to the next two succeeding sub-regulations, for the purposes of section 126a of the Act, each of the following conditions is a condition of a hirer’s licence applying in respect of more than one receiver—
(a) the holder of the licence shall, within seven days after the end of each month during which he carries on in a State the business in connexion with which the licence is used, furnish to the Chief Accountant, Finance and Accounting Branch, Postmaster-General’s Department in that State, a return in writing, relating to the receivers used in that business, setting out particulars of—
(i) the maximum number of receivers so used that he had let out on hire at the one time during the month immediately preceding the furnishing of the return; and
(ii) the sum of the number of days for which each of the receivers so used was let out on hire by him during that month;
(b) the holder of the licence, or a person authorized by him for the purpose, shall declare on each return furnished in pursuance of the condition specified in the last preceding paragraph, by writing under his hand, whether the statements made in the return are true and correct;
(c) the holder of the licence shall keep, or cause to be kept, in respect of each receiver used by him for letting out on hire in carrying on the business in a State in connexion with which the licence is used a record of the hirings of the receiver, being hirings in the course of his so using it, containing—
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972
† Statutory Rules 1965, No. 152, as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 167; 1968, No 112; 1969, No. 169; 1970. Nos. 143 and 196; and 1971, No. 72.
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(i) a description of the receiver, including its make and the serial number of its chassis;
(ii) the date of commencement of each of those hirings; and
(iii) the date of termination of each of those hirings that has terminated;
(d) the holder of the licence shall cause the records kept by him to be numbered consecutively commencing with the number one;
(e) the holder of the licence shall retain the record kept by him in respect of a receiver used by him for letting out on hire in carrying on the business in a State in connexion with which the licence is used—
(i) if he carries on that business at one address in the State—at that address;
(ii) if he carries on that business at more than one address in the State—at the address in the State furnished or last furnished by him for the purpose to the Director of Posts and Telegraphs in that State; or
(iii) if he has ceased to carry on that business in the State—at the address in Australia furnished or last furnished by him for the purpose to the Director of Posts and Telegraphs in that State,
until the expiration of two years after that receiver ceases to be so used; and
(f) the holder of the licence shall, upon demand at any reasonable time by an officer, make the records kept by him available for inspection by the officer at the place at winch they are retained.
“(3.) It is not a condition of a hirer’s licence in respect of broadcast receivers that the holder furnish any particulars or keep any record in relation to a television receiver and it is not a condition of a hirer’s licence in respect of television receivers that the holder furnish any particulars or keep any record in relation to a broadcast receiver.
“(4.) It is not a condition of a hirer’s licence in respect of receivers that the holder keep any record in respect of a hiring of a receiver that terminated before the commencement of this regulation.
“(5.) In this regulation, references to a record kept by the holder of a hirer’s licence shall be read as references to a record kept by him in pursuance of the condition of the licence specified in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation.”.
Manner of attaching licences and manner of marking receivers.
3. Regulation 14 of the Broadcasting and Television Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(a) the particulars to be marked on a receiver are—
(i) the words ‘Receiver on hire from’ followed by the name and address of the person letting out the receiver on hire;
(ii) the words ‘ Record number ’ followed by the number of the record kept in respect of the receiver in accordance with paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) of the last preceding regulation, being the number given to the record in accordance with paragraph (d) of that sub-regulation: and
(iii) if the serial number of the chassis of the receiver is not marked on the outside of the receiver, the words ‘ Serial number ’ followed by that serial number; and”.