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Broadcasting Act 1942
95FApplication of Division to radio broadcasts
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##### 95F Application of Division to radio broadcasts
(1) Nothing in this Division is to be treated as requiring or permitting the Service or a licensee to broadcast an election broadcast by radio.
(2) Nothing in this Division is to be treated as requiring the Corporation to broadcast an election broadcast by radio other than on its metropolitan and regional AM networks.
(3) Despite section 95G, the Corporation may broadcast by radio a broadcast that complies with paragraphs 95G(a) to (e), inclusive, but which lasts for longer than 1 minute, and any such broadcast is taken to be an election broadcast for the purposes of this Division.
(4) Despite anything in this Division, the Corporation may determine the times when it broadcasts election broadcasts by radio.
95G Election broadcasts
Subject to section 95F, a broadcast made on behalf of a political party, a candidate or a group in relation to an election is, for the purposes of this Division, taken to be an election broadcast if, and only if:
(a) the broadcast is of an advertisement that consists of words spoken by a single speaker (without dramatic enactment or impersonation) accompanied, where the advertisement is televised, by a transmitted image that consists of the head and shoulders of the speaker; and
(b) the broadcast does not include any other image, or includes a single additional static background image only; and
(c) no other vocal sounds are included in the broadcast; and
(d) the speaker is a candidate in the election or a member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth or a State, or of a legislature of a Territory; and
(e) if section 117 applies—the required particulars within the meaning of that section are announced by the person who speaks the words of the advertisement; and
(f) the broadcast lasts for:
(i) in the case of a televised broadcast—2 minutes; and
(ii) in the case of a broadcast by radio—1 minute; and
(g) the broadcast is made using a unit of free time allocated to the broadcaster under section 95P.