Broadcasting Services (Hours of Local Content) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 10 August 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Mitch Fifield

Minister for Communications

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

6 Prescribed daytime hours

7 Prescribed prime‑time hours

Schedule 1—Repeals

Broadcasting Services (Hours of Local Content) Regulations 2007

1  Name

  This instrument is the Broadcasting Services (Hours of Local Content) Regulations 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5  Definitions

  In these Regulations:

Act means the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

6  Prescribed daytime hours

 (1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of daytime hours in subsection 43C(8) of the Act, 5 am is prescribed.

 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of daytime hours in subsection 43C(8) of the Act, 8 pm is prescribed.

7  Prescribed prime‑time hours

 (1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of prime‑time hours in section 61CA of the Act, 5 am is prescribed.

 (2) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition of prime‑time hours in section 61CA of the Act, 8 pm is prescribed.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Broadcasting Services (Hours of Local Content) Regulations 2007

1  The whole of the Regulations

Repeal the Regulations.