84Policy objectives for Part B

84 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 19 (6A) of Schedule 4 to the Act;

(b) the policy objective that, where and when practicable, the ACMA should establish a transitional period for a remote coverage area, known as a simulcast period, throughout which a national broadcaster would be required to transmit simultaneously the national 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;

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

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

(e) the policy objective that a national broadcaster may be allowed to transmit the national television broadcasting service concerned in digital mode in a remote coverage area during the whole or a part of the period before the start of the simulcast period, so long as that transmission complies with the requirements of Part B of this Scheme;

(f) the policy objective that a national broadcaster may be allowed to transmit, on a test basis, the national television broadcasting service concerned in digital mode in a remote coverage area before the start of the simulcast period for that area, so long as that transmission:

(i) complies with such requirements as are ascertained in accordance with Part B of this Scheme; and

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

(g) the policy objective that, as soon as practicable after the start of the simulcast period for a coverage area, and throughout the remainder of that period, the transmission of a national 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;

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

(i) transmitters used by a national broadcaster 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

(ii) transmitters used by the national broadcaster to transmit that service in analog mode in so much of that area as is not a digital‑only local market area;