Bill
Meteorology Amendment (Online Advertising) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-09-11. Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-06-25
- second reading — 2014-06-25
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- other — 2014-07-16
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- other — 2014-07-16
- third reading — 2014-07-16
- introduced — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2014-08-28
- second reading — 2014-08-28
- third reading — 2014-08-28
- passed — 2014-08-28
- royal assent — 2014-09-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-06-25.
The bill would confirm the Bureau of Meteorology's power to accept paid advertisements on its website.
The Director of Meteorology would have to publish guidelines about which kinds of ads are allowed and could ban ads that harm the Commonwealth or the Bureau.
The bill would also validate any actions taken before it starts and make nine minor updates to wording in the Meteorology Act 1955.
- Gives the Director of Meteorology explicit authority to include paid advertising on the Bureau's services.
- Requires the Director to develop and publish advertising guidelines, with power to prohibit ads not in the public interest.
- Adds paid advertising to the list of services for which the Bureau can charge a fee.
- Validates any actions taken before the bill commences to remove doubt about their legality.
- Updates nine places in the Meteorology Act 1955 to modernise language and correct syntax.
The Bureau of Meteorology and its director are affected.
Sources
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