Channel sharing
218 Channel sharing
The regulations may make provision for the allocation by the ACMA of additional commercial television broadcasting licences, commercial radio broadcasting licences and community broadcasting licences on the application of an existing licensee.
Those additional licences are:
to be allocated to a person other than the licensee; and
to allow the provision of broadcasting services with the use of the same part of the broadcasting services bands or other means of delivery as is used by the licensee.
The provisions of this Act, other than the provisions dealing with advertising for or allocating licences, apply to those additional licences.
If such an additional licence would use a part of the broadcasting services bands being used by a community broadcasting licensee, services under that licence can only be provided with the approval of the ACMA.
This provision refers to the regulations (The regulations may make
). Made under this Act:
- Australian Communications and Media Authority (Realising the Digital Dividend) Direction 2010 · Legislative Instrument · under s 25(3) and cl 15 and 29 of sch 4
- Broadcasting (Hours of Local Content) Declaration No.1 of 2017 · Legislative Instrument · under para 43C(3)(c)
- Broadcasting Services (Anti-Siphoning List) Instrument 2024 · Legislative Instrument · under s 146V(1)
80 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
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