TELECOMMUNICATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989
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(a) authorize the Broadcasting Authority to investigate the ownership or control of voting shares in a licensee and for the purpose of such investigation may authorize the Authority to require any person to give particulars concerning any right, title or interest to or in any such voting shares that he may have and also particulars concerning the right, title or interest to or in those voting shares which to his knowledge any other person may have;
(b) authorize the Broadcasting Authority to require a licensee to supply such particulars as may be specified in the regulations concerning any right, title or interest of persons to or in its shares, including particulars of transfers of any such right, title or interest;
(c) authorize the Broadcasting Authority to require a licensee to obtain the particulars referred to in paragraph (b) from any person and require such person to supply such particulars (by way of declaration or otherwise); (d) empower the Broadcasting Authority, where any person fails or refuses to supply particulars concerning any right, title or interest he may have to or in any such voting shares in accordance with the regulations, to suspend the voting rights attached to such shares;
(e) authorize the Broadcasting Authority to require a licensee to establish and maintain a register of shares to contain details of rights, titles and interests to or in such voting shares and particulars of transfers of the same;
(f) prescribe the procedures to be followed in giving directions under section
13K(1);
(g) regulate matters relating to transfers of rights, titles and interests to or in
such voting shares.
(3) Regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence punishable by a fine not exceeding $100,000.
Regulations relating to standards and technical requirements
130. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purpose of— (a) establishing standards for the programmes and advertising material to be
broadcast by licensees; and
(b) providing for the technical requirements with which a licensee shall
comply in broadcasting.".
General provisions as to licences, etc.
4.
Section 34 is amended by adding after subsection (5)—
"(6) Nothing in this section applies in respect of a licence granted under Part IIIA.".
Explanatory Memorandum
The purpose of this Bill is to provide more comprehensive statutory control over commercial sound broadcasting.
2. Clause 3 inserts a new Part IIIA into the principal Ordinance to deal with sound broadcasting licences. There are 15 new sections-