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BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 146P

Contracts to acquire rights to televise live events must authorise the transfer of the rights

  (1)   A national broadcaster must not enter into a contract under which the national broadcaster:

  (a)   acquires; or

  (b)   will be entitled to acquire (whether on the fulfilment of a condition or otherwise);

rights to televise live the whole, or a substantial proportion, of a designated event, or of a designated series of events, unless the contract authorises the national broadcaster to make an offer of the kind referred to in section   146L.

  (2)   A contract entered into in contravention of subsection   (1) is void.


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