86Digital channel plan

86 Digital channel plan

(1) The allotment of additional channels to national broadcasters, allowing the national broadcasters to transmit programs in analog and digital modes during a simulcast period, will be done in a digital channel plan made by the ACMA under section 91.

(2) Subject to subsection (2A), a digital channel plan may allot channels to national broadcasters in a remote coverage area, allowing the holders to transmit in digital mode after a simulcast period for the remote coverage area.

(2A) A digital channel plan must not allot channels to national broadcasters in a remote coverage area if a television licence area plan for the licence area that corresponds to the remote coverage area has come into force.

Note Clause 22AA of Schedule 4 to the Act provides that this Scheme, and a digital channel plan, to the extent to which they allot channels for a particular coverage area, cease to have effect when the television licence area plan for the licence area that corresponds to the coverage area comes into force.

(3) A digital channel plan may deal with:

(a) all remote coverage areas (other than coverage areas dealt with in Part A of this Scheme); or

(b) 1 or more specified remote coverage areas (other than coverage areas dealt with in Part A of this Scheme).

Note As a result of subsection (3), there may be more than 1 document available at any time with the title digital channel plan.

(4) A digital channel plan may also deal with a specified part of a remote coverage area.