49Simulcast period

49 Simulcast period

(1) There is a transitional period for a licence area, to be known as the simulcast period.

Note See Act, Schedule 4, paragraph 6 (3) (c).

(2) A holder for the area must, throughout the simulcast period:

(a) transmit simultaneously the commercial television broadcasting service concerned in both analog mode and SDTV digital mode in so much of that area as is not a digital‑only local market area; and

(b) ensure that no transmissions of the commercial television broadcasting service concerned in analog mode are made in so much of that area as is a digital‑only local market area.

(2A) For the purpose of determining whether a holder has complied, or is complying, with subsection (2), disregard any transmissions made by a transmitter used for transmitting one or more commercial television broadcasting services in SDTV digital mode, authorised to operate under a transmitter licence issued under section 100 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992.

(3) For a metropolitan licence area, the simulcast period begins on 1 January 2001.

(4) For a regional licence area, the simulcast period begins on the date determined by the ACMA under subsection 48 (1).

Note The Minister may determine simulcast periods for metropolitan and regional licence areas: see Act, Schedule 4, subparagraphs 6 (3) (c) (ii) and (iia) and clause 6A.