2010-2011-2012-2013 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News Media (Self-regulation) 

(Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013 

 

No.      , 2013 

 

(Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to deal with consequential matters 

arising from the enactment of the News Media 

(Self-regulation) Act 2013, and for other purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Privacy Act 1988

 

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A Bill for an Act to deal with consequential matters 

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arising from the enactment of the News Media 

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(Self-regulation) Act 2013, and for other purposes 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the News Media (Self-regulation) 

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(Consequential Amendments) Act 2013. 

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2  Commencement 

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(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provision(s) 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

The day after the end of the period of 1 

month beginning on the first day before 

28 June 2013 on which a declaration under 

subsection 7(1) of the News Media 

(Self-regulation) Act 2013 takes effect. 

However, if no declaration under 

subsection 7(1) of the News Media 

(Self-regulation) Act 2013 takes effect 

before 28 June 2013, the provision(s) 

commence on 1 July 2013. 

However, the provision(s) do not commence 

at all if section 3 of the News Media 

(Self-regulation) Act 2013 has not 

commenced before 28 June 2013. 

 

Note:  

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

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this Act. 

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(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

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may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

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3  Schedule(s) 

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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

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Amendments 

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Privacy Act 1988 

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1  At the end of subsection 7B(4) 

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Add: 

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; and (c)  if the organisation is a news media organisation (within the 

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meaning of the News Media (Self-regulation) Act 2013)--at a 

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time when: 

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(i)  the organisation is a member of a news media 

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self-regulation body (within the meaning of that Act); 

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and 

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(ii)  the organisation's rights as a member of the news media 

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self-regulation body are not suspended under the body's 

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constitution. 

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2  After subsection 7B(4) 

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Insert: 

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(4A)  Paragraph (4)(c) does not apply to the extent (if any) that it would 

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infringe any constitutional doctrine of implied freedom of political 

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communication. 

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