Bill
Communications Legislation Amendment (SBS Advertising Flexibility and Other Measures) Bill 2015
lapsed, as at 2015-06-24. Communications portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-03-25
- second reading — 2015-03-25
- second reading — 2015-05-26
- second reading — 2015-05-26
- third reading — 2015-05-26
- introduced — 2015-06-15
- second reading — 2015-06-15
- second reading — 2015-06-16
- second reading — 2015-06-24
- second reading — 2015-06-24
Divisions
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Sbs Advertising Flexibility and Other Measures) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree to bill's main idea — 2015-05-26, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 46
- Communications Legislation Amendment (Sbs Advertising Flexibility and Other Measures) Bill 2015 - Second Reading - Agree to bill's main idea — 2015-06-24, Senate: negative, ayes 28, noes 31
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-03-25.
The bill would give SBS more freedom to schedule advertisements and to earn money from product placement in its own programs.
It would replace the current limit of five minutes of ads per hour with a maximum of ten minutes per hour, while keeping the overall daily cap of 120 minutes.
The bill also makes minor technical corrections to the ABC and SBS Acts and removes outdated provisions from communications laws.
- Removes the restriction of five minutes of advertising per hour and sets a new limit of ten minutes per hour.
- Authorises SBS to earn revenue through product placement in commissioned programming.
- Requires the SBS Board to develop and publish guidelines on product placement and to report on its use in the annual report.
- Inserts definitions into the SBS Act to align it with the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 and the ABC Act.
- Removes redundant definitions about election periods from the ABC and SBS Acts.
- Repeals spent provisions from Communications portfolio legislation.
The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) and, to a lesser extent, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
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