Broadcasting Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 1 · Preliminary
2C. Transitional arrangements for former licensable broadcasting service
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With effect from the date that a licensable broadcasting service is specified in the Fourth Schedule as an online communication service (called the conversion date) —
licensable broadcasting service
“licensable broadcasting service” means any broadcasting service specified in the Second Schedule and is not and has never been an online communication service;
this Act ceases to apply to —
that service as a licensable broadcasting service; and
the provider of that service as a broadcasting licensee; and
this Act then continues to apply to that service as an online communication service, and the former broadcasting licensee as a provider of an online communication service,but without affecting the following:
the enforcement by any person of any right or claim against the former broadcasting licensee;
the enforcement by the former broadcasting licensee of any right or claim against any person;
any proceeding under section 12(1) with respect to the former licensable broadcasting service that is pending immediately before the conversion date;
any appeal under section 12(2) or 59(1) with respect to the former licensable broadcasting service that is pending immediately before the conversion date.
Any proceeding and appeal mentioned in subsection (1)(e) and (f) may be continued under sections 12 and 59, respectively, as if the Fourth Schedule had not been enacted.