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Broadcasting Services Act 1992
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74B Definitions
ACMA official has the same meaning as in the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005.
Australian media company means:
(a) a company that holds a commercial television broadcasting licence; or
(b) a company that holds a commercial radio broadcasting licence; or
(c) a company that is:
(i) the publisher of a newspaper that is associated with the licence area of a commercial television broadcasting licence or a commercial radio broadcasting licence; and
(ii) a constitutional corporation.
designated information, in relation to a person, means:
(a) if the person is an individual:
(i) the person’s date of birth; and
(ii) the country in which the person is ordinarily resident; and
(b) if the person is a corporation—the country in which the corporation was formed; and
(c) if the person is a trustee of a trust:
(i) the name of the trust; and
(ii) the country in which the trust was established; and
(d) if the person is a foreign government investor as the result of the application of paragraph 17(a) of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 to a separate government entity of a foreign country or a part of a foreign country—the foreign country or the part of the foreign country, as the case may be; and
(e) if the person is a foreign government investor wholly or partly as the result of the application of paragraph 17(b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 to a foreign government—the foreign government; and
(f) if the person is a foreign government investor wholly or partly as the result of the application of paragraph 17(b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015 to a separate government entity of a foreign country or a part of a foreign country—the foreign country or the part of the foreign country, as the case may be; and
(g) the following contact details:
(i) the person’s address;
(ii) the person’s email address (if any);
(iii) the person’s telephone number (if any).
foreign government has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975.
foreign government investor has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975.
foreign person has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975.
foreign stakeholder, in relation to an Australian media company, has the meaning given by section 74C.
initial disclosure period means the period of 6 months beginning at the commencement of this Division.
person includes a foreign person.
separate government entity has the same meaning as in the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975.