Competition and Consumer Act 2010
52ZCDigital service to be supplied without differentiating in relation to registered news businesses
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52ZC Digital service to be supplied without differentiating in relation to registered news businesses
(1) This section applies if a responsible digital platform corporation for a designated digital platform service, either by itself or together with other corporations, operates or controls a digital service (whether or not the designated digital platform service).
(2) The responsible digital platform corporation must ensure that the supply of the digital service does not, in relation to crawling, indexing, making available and distributing news businesses’ covered news content:
(a) differentiate between registered news businesses, because of any of the following matters:
(ia) a corporation being registered under section 52G, or being endorsed under that section as the registered news business corporation for a news business;
(i) a bargaining news business representative for a registered news business making a notification under 52ZE(1), or not making such a notification;
(ii) a bargaining news business representative for a registered news business giving a notice under 52ZL(2), or not giving such a notice;
(iii) a registered news business being paid, or not being paid, an amount of remuneration for the making available of the registered news business’ covered news content by a designated digital platform service (whether or not the remuneration is paid in accordance with a determination of a panel under section 52ZX));
(iv) a registered news business being the subject of, or not being the subject of, an agreement of a kind described in section 52ZZK or 52ZZL;
(v) a registered news business being the subject of, or not being the subject of, an agreement resulting from the acceptance of an offer of a kind described in section 52ZZM; or
(b) differentiate between registered news businesses and news businesses that are not registered news businesses, because of any of the following matters:
(i) a matter mentioned in subparagraph (a)(ia), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v);
(ii) a news business covered by subsection (3) being paid, or not being paid, an amount of remuneration for the making available of the news business’ covered news content by a designated digital platform service;
(iii) a news business covered by subsection (3) being the subject of, or not being the subject of, an agreement of a kind described in section 52ZZK or 52ZZL;
(iv) a news business covered by subsection (3) being the subject of, or not being the subject of, an agreement resulting from the acceptance of an offer of a kind described in section 52ZZM; or
(c) differentiate between news businesses that are not registered news businesses, because of any of the following matters: