The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

THE SENATE

Presented and read a first time

ABC Amendment (Online and Multichannelling Services) Bill 2001

No. , 2001

(Senator Bourne)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 in relation to the provision of online and multichannelling services, and for related purposes

ISBN: 0642 469156

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Broadcasting Services Act 1992 5

A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 in relation to the provision of online and multichannelling services, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the ABC Amendment (Online and Multichannelling Services) Act 2001.

2 Commencement This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1--Amendment of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983 1 Subsection 3(1)

Insert:

multichannelled broadcasting service, in relation to a national broadcasting service, has the meaning given by clause 5A of Schedule 4 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

2 After section 6A

Insert:

6B Online and multichannelling services For the purposes of the performance of its functions, the Corporation must provide:

(a) multichannelled broadcasting services; and

(b) online services by either or both of the following means:

(i) the Internet;

(ii) electronic transmission over a path or combination of paths.

3 After subsection 31(1)

Insert:

(1A) Subsection (1) applies to the Corporation's online services.

(1B) Without limiting subsection (1A), the Corporation must not provide or permit electronic links between its online services and any other online service which promotes a commercial body, product or service.

(1C) In providing or permitting electronic links between the Corporation's online services and any other online service, the Corporation must ensure that the link includes a warning that the user is leaving the Corporation's services.

4 Subsection 31(3)

Omit "does not apply", substitute "applies".

5 After paragraph 31(3)(a)

Omit "or", substitute "and".

Schedule 2--Amendment of other Acts Broadcasting Services Act 1992

1 Paragraph 5A(1)(d) of Schedule 4

Repeal the paragraph.

2 Subclauses 5A(2) and (3) of Schedule 4

Repeal the subclauses.