Broadcasting Services Act 1992

Conditions of a subscription television broadcasting licence must be relevant to subscription television broadcasting services.

Without limiting the range of conditions that may be imposed, the ACMA may impose a condition:

requiring a licensee to comply with a code of practice that is applicable to the licensee; or

designed to ensure that a breach of a condition by a subscription television broadcasting licensee does not recur; or

designed to ensure compliance with the film classification system provided for by the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995.

The ACMA must impose conditions on satellite subscription television broadcasting licences:

designed to ensure that the domestic reception equipment used by each satellite subscription television broadcasting licensee is accessible by other satellite broadcasting services; and

designed to ensure that each satellite subscription television broadcasting licensee that has a subscriber management system provides access to that system to other satellite subscription television broadcasting licensees at a fair price.

The Minister may direct the ACMA to impose a condition under this section designed to ensure that subscription television broadcasting licensees adequately involve Australian industry in the provision of services under those licences.

Conditions under subsection (4) may be different for different classes of licensees.

The ACMA must impose a condition on all subscription television broadcasting licences requiring each licensee to make available, as an option, domestic reception equipment on a rental basis.

The ACMA must impose a condition on all non‑satellite subscription television broadcasting licences requiring that, if a licensee rents domestic reception equipment to a consumer, the rental agreement must allow the consumer to terminate the agreement on giving one month’s written notice to the licensee.