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BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 121FG

Prohibition on providing an international broadcasting service without a licence

  (1)   A person commits an offence if the person:

  (a)   intentionally provides an international broadcasting service; and

  (b)   does not have an international broadcasting licence to provide the service, and is reckless as to that fact.

Penalty:   20,000 penalty units.

  (2)   A person who contravenes subsection   (1) commits a separate offence in respect of each day (including a day of a conviction for the offence or any later day) during which the contravention continues.

  (3)   A person must not provide an international broadcasting service if the person does not have a licence to provide that service.

  (4)   Subsection   (3) is a civil penalty provision.

  (5)   A person who contravenes subsection   (3) commits a separate contravention of that subsection in respect of each day (including a day of the making of a relevant civil penalty order or any subsequent day) during which the contravention continues.


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