Offence for breach of conditions of licences and class licences
139 Offence for breach of conditions of licences and class licences
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a commercial television broadcasting licensee; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches a condition of the licence set out in subclause 7(1) (other than paragraph 7(1)(ia)) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 2,000 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a commercial television broadcasting licensee; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches the condition of the licence set out in paragraph 7(1)(ia) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
An offence against subsection (1A) is an offence of strict liability.
For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
Subsection (1A) is a designated infringement notice provision.
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a subscription television broadcasting licensee; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches a condition of a subscription television broadcasting licence set out in section 103P, 103Q, 103S, 103T, 103V, 103W, 103Y or 103Z, or in subclause 10(1) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 1,000 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a commercial radio broadcasting licensee; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches a condition of the licence set out in subclause 8(1) (other than paragraph 8(1)(ha)) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 500 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a commercial radio broadcasting licensee; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches the condition of the licence set out in paragraph 8(1)(ha) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 60 penalty units.
An offence against subsection (3A) is an offence of strict liability.
For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
Subsection (3A) is a designated infringement notice provision.
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a community broadcasting licensee (other than a temporary community broadcasting licensee); and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches a condition of the licence set out in subclause 9(1) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if:
the person is a temporary community broadcasting licensee; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches a condition of the licence set out in subclause 9(1) (other than paragraph 9(1)(h)) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
A person commits an offence if:
the person provides a subscription radio broadcasting service, a subscription narrowcasting service or an open narrowcasting service; and
the person engages in conduct; and
the person’s conduct breaches a condition set out in subclause 11(1) of Schedule 2.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
In this section:
engage in conduct means:
do an act; or
omit to perform an act.
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