Broadcasting Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Broadcasting Services
16. Directions of Authority
Feedback & supportThe Authority may issue directions in writing to a broadcasting licensee requiring the licensee to take any action with regard to the contents of programmes or advertisements or to broadcast standards that the Authority considers necessary in order to comply with the provisions of this Act, any relevant Code of Practice and any condition attached to the broadcasting licence.
Directions issued under subsection (1) may include a direction prohibiting a broadcasting licensee from broadcasting the whole or any part of a programme or of any class of material.
programme
“programme”, in relation to a broadcasting service, means —(a)any matter the primary purpose of which is to entertain, educate or inform all or part of the public; or(b)any advertising or sponsorship matter, whether or not of a commercial kind,but does not include any matter that is wholly related to or connected with any private communication, that is to say —(c)any communication between 2 or more persons that is of a private or domestic nature;(d)any internal communication of a business, Government agency or other organisation for the purpose of the operation of the business, agency or organisation; and(e)communications in such other circumstances as may be prescribed;
Any broadcasting licensee and any other person responsible for the broadcasting of any programme prohibited by a direction issued under subsection (1) shall each be guilty of an offence and shall each be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.