Bill
Broadcasting Services Amendment (Community Radio) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2022-12-13. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-10-27
- second reading — 2022-10-27
- second reading — 2022-11-29
- other — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- other — 2022-11-30
- third reading — 2022-11-30
- introduced — 2022-12-01
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- third reading — 2022-12-01
- passed — 2022-12-01
- royal assent — 2022-12-13
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 2022-10-27.
The bill would stop existing community radio licensees from having to compete every five years to keep their licence.
It would let the Australian Communications and Media Authority allocate licences in advance so new stations can prepare infrastructure and programming before their licence starts.
The bill also sets deadlines for licence renewals and allows faster processing of routine licensing decisions.
- Removes the requirement for existing licensees to go through a competitive process every five years for licence renewal.
- Allows licences to be allocated in advance so prospective stations have time to prepare.
- Creates flexibility and consistency in the criteria for allocating temporary community broadcasting licences.
- Reduces the administrative burden of managing multiple temporary licensees sharing a frequency.
- Adds deadlines to the licence renewal process to improve efficiency.
- Allows the ACMA to use expedited timelines for routine community broadcasting licence decisions.
Existing and prospective community radio licensees, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, and listeners.
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