No. 37/1976:

BROADCASTING AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1976

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1 Definitions.

2 Removal of member of Authority.

3 Impartiality.

4 Broadcasting Complaints Commission.

5 Advice to Authority.

6 Authority to record every broadcast.

7 Assignment of additional functions to Authority.

8 Annual amounts to be paid to Authority by Minister.

9 Increase of limit on repayable advances.

10 Extension of borrowing powers of Authority.

11 Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.

12 Amendment of section 16 of Principal Act.

13 Amendment of section 17 of Principal Act.

14 Amendment of sections 19 and 20 of Principal Act.

15 Amendment of section 28 of Principal Act.

16 Amendment of section 31 of Principal Act.

17 Regulation of local programmes for distribution on cable systems.

18 Amendment of section 2 of Act of 1926.

19 Amendment of section 12A of Act of 1926.

20 Application of sections 7, 8, 10 and 12 of Act of 1926 in relation to certain apparatus.

21 Repeals.

22 Short title, construction and collective citation.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY ACTS, 1960 TO 1974, TO AMEND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT, 1926 , AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING.

[21st December, 1976]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: