Broadcasting Act, 2001

Special accounts under section 25(1) of Act of 1960 and amendment of section 6 of Act of 1976.

32.—(1) The function conferred on the Minister by section 25(1) of the Act of 1960 with respect to directing (whether on the Minister's own motion or at the request of the Minister for Finance) the Authority to keep special accounts includes a power (exercisable on the Minister's own motion or at the request of the Minister for Finance) to direct the Authority to keep a special account showing the manner, with regard to, respectively, the television broadcasting service and sound broadcasting service referred to in subsection (1) of section 28 , in which the moneys paid to it under section 8 of the Act of 1976 in the year concerned have been appropriated for the purpose of the activities of the Authority, during that year, referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (2) and subsection (8)(d) of section 28 .

(2) Section 6 of the Act of 1976 is hereby amended by the deletion in subsection (1) of all the words from “; provided that as regards a television broadcast” to the end of that subsection.