Broadcasting Services Act 1992

This section applies if:

a trigger event for a designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting licence (the relevant licence) occurs on a particular day; and

that event is the first or only trigger event for the relevant licence; and

immediately before that event, the designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting licences were under common control; and

a period (the relevant period) satisfies the following conditions:

the period began at the time of that event;

at all times during the period, the designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting licences are under common control.

Section 61CYB defines when licences are under common control.

During the relevant period, in determining, for the purposes of this Division, whether material is material of local significance in relation to the local area of the relevant licence:

material that relates directly to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting local area is taken to be material that relates directly to the local area of the relevant licence; and

material that relates directly to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting licence area is taken to be material that relates directly to the licence area of the relevant licence.

During the relevant period, the table in subsection 61CY(3) has effect, in relation to the relevant licence, as if:

a reference in the table to the local area were a reference to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting local area; and

a reference in the table to the licensee’s licence area were a reference to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting licence area.

During the relevant period, the provision of the local programming determination that was made for the purposes of paragraph (d) of item 1 of the table in subsection 61CY(3) has effect, in relation to the relevant licence, as if a reference in that provision to the local area were a reference to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting local area.

During the relevant period, subsection 61CY(5) has effect, in relation to the relevant licence, as if a reference in that subsection to the licensee’s licence area were a reference to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting licence area.

During the relevant period, paragraphs 61CY(7)(a) and (b) have effect, in relation to the relevant licence, as if a reference in those paragraphs to the area were a reference to the combined designated Western Australian commercial television broadcasting local area.