90Policy objectives for Part B

90 Policy objectives for Part B

Part B of this scheme is directed towards ensuring the achievement of the following policy objectives:

(a) the policy objective mentioned in subclause 6 (6A) of Schedule 4 to the Act;

(b) the policy objective that a holder should be authorised, under 1 or more transmitter licences, to use 1 or more additional channels to transmit the commercial television broadcasting service concerned in digital mode in the holder’s licence area;

(c) the policy objective that each additional channel should occupy 7 MHz of bandwidth;

(d) the policy objective that each exempt remote area service for a remote licence area should be authorised to be transmitted in SDTV digital mode using multi‑channelling transmission capacity while an election under subclause 6 (7B) of Schedule 4 to the Act is in force for the service;

(e) the policy objective that, where and when practicable, there should be a simulcast period during which the holder of a commercial television broadcasting licence for a remote licence area would be required to transmit simultaneously in analog mode and SDTV digital mode in so much of that area as is not a digital‑only local market area;

(f) the policy objective that, before the simulcast period for a licence area has commenced, a holder may be allowed to transmit the commercial television broadcasting service concerned in digital mode in that area, so long as that transmission complies with such requirements as are ascertained in accordance with Part B of this scheme;

(g) the policy objective that, before the simulcast period for a licence area has commenced, a holder may be allowed to transmit, on a test basis, the commercial television broadcasting service concerned in digital mode in that area, so long as that transmission:

(i) complies with the requirements of Part B of this scheme; and

(ii) occurs during a period ascertained in accordance with Part B of this scheme;

(h) the policy objective that, as soon as practicable after the start of the simulcast period for a licence area, and throughout the remainder of that period, the transmission of a commercial television broadcasting service in SDTV digital mode in so much of that area as is not a digital-only local market area should achieve the same level of coverage and potential reception quality as is achieved by the transmission of that service in analog mode in so much of that area as is not a digital-only local market area;

(i) the policy objective that, during the simulcast period for a licence or coverage area, there should, as far as practicable, be co‑location of:

(i) transmitters used by a holder for that area to transmit the television broadcasting service concerned in digital mode in so much of that area as is not a digital‑only local market area; and