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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Amendment (Regional Australia) Bill
2017
No. , 2017
(Senator Burston)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, and for related
purposes
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Regional Australia)
Bill 2017
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
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No. , 2017
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment (Regional Australia)
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian
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Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983, and for related
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purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Amendment
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(Regional Australia) Act 2017.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983
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1 At the end of section 68
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Add:
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(3) The Corporation must ensure that at least 35 per cent of the money
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of the Corporation applied in a financial year is applied in making
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payments to persons in regional, rural or remote parts of Australia.
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2 After paragraph 80(k)
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Insert:
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(ka) particulars of the amount of the money of the Corporation
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applied in the period in making payments to persons in
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regional, rural and remote parts of Australia; and
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3 Transitional provision
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If the day this Schedule commences (the commencement day) is a day
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other than 1 July, section 68 of the Australian Broadcasting
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Corporation Act 1983, as amended by this Schedule, has effect as if the
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period between the start of the commencement day and the end of the
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first 30 June to occur on or after the commencement day were a
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financial year.
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