Broadcasting Services Act 1992

A company is a suitable applicant or suitable licensee in relation to a temporary community broadcasting licence if the ACMA has not decided that subsection (2) applies to the company in relation to the licence.

It is a condition of a temporary community broadcasting licence that the licensee remain a suitable licensee: see paragraph 9(2)(a) of Schedule 2.

The ACMA may, if it is satisfied that allowing a company to provide or continue to provide broadcasting services under a temporary community broadcasting licence would lead to a significant risk of:

an offence against this Act or the regulations being committed; or

a breach of a civil penalty provision occurring; or

a breach of the conditions of the licence occurring;

In deciding whether such a risk exists, the ACMA is to take into account only:

the business record of the company; and

the company’s record in situations requiring trust and candour; and

the business record of the chief executive and each director and secretary of the applicant; and

the record in situations requiring trust and candour of each such person; and

whether the company, or a person referred to in paragraph (c) or (d), has been convicted of an offence against this Act or the regulations; and

whether a civil penalty order has been made against:

the company; or

a person referred to in paragraph (c) or (d).

This section does not affect the operation of Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914 (which includes provisions that, in certain circumstances, relieve persons from the requirement to disclose spent convictions and require persons aware of such convictions to disregard them).