Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

The Corporation shall not broadcast advertisements on any of the Corporation’s broadcasting services.

Subsection (1) does not prevent the Corporation, if the Board thinks fit, from broadcasting:

any announcement relating to any activity or proposed activity of the Corporation;

a program supplied by any organization or person engaged in artistic, literary, musical or theatrical production or in educational pursuits; or

a program supplied by any organization or person other than a program that is, in the opinion of the Corporation, being used as an advertisement;

Subsection (1) does not apply to:

the broadcasting of any matter by the Corporation’s international television service and its associated audio channels outside Australia; or

the broadcasting of any matter by the Corporation’s international television service and its associated audio channels inside Australia that is merely incidental to the broadcasting of the matter outside Australia.

The Corporation must not have advertisements in any of the Corporation’s digital media services.

Subsection (4) does not prevent the Corporation, if the Board thinks fit, from having in a digital media service:

content relating to an activity or proposed activity of the Corporation; or

content supplied by an organisation or person engaged in:

artistic, literary, musical or theatrical production; or

educational pursuits; or

content that is supplied by an organisation or person other than content that is, in the opinion of the Corporation, being used as an advertisement; or

content the provision of which is directed by the Minister under subsection 78(3A).

Subsection (4) does not apply to a digital media service that relates to the Corporation’s international television service and its associated audio channels.

Subsection (4) does not apply to an eligible electronic publication.

For the purposes of this section, if:

content consists of:

an electronic edition of a book, magazine or newspaper; or

an audio recording of the text, or abridged text, of a book, magazine or newspaper; and

a print edition of the book, magazine or newspaper is or was available to the public (whether by way of purchase or otherwise) in Australia;