Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Bill

Bill No. 31/1979

Read the first time on 7th September 1979.

An Act to establish a corporation to be known as the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation and to provide for the transfer to the Corporation of the functions, services, staff, assets and liabilities of the Government in respect of, or appertaining to, television and sound broadcasting, and for matters connected therewith, and to amend the Broadcasting and Television Act (Chapter 83 of the Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation Act, 1979, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

(2) The Minister may appoint different dates for the coming into operation of the different Parts or provisions of this Act.

Interpretation

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“broadcasting apparatus” means any apparatus capable of or designed or constructed for the transmission or reception of broadcast matter by radio waves, wire or cable;

“broadcast matter” means any signs or signals transmitted by a broadcasting station, whether for aural or visual reception or both, and includes any music, theatrical or other entertainment, concert, lecture, speech, address, parade, sports event, rally, advertisement, news and information of any kind so transmitted;

“broadcasting service” means a service whereby sounds or visual images are transmitted by the person operating the service to listeners or viewers of the service by means of radio waves, wire or cable;

“broadcasting station” means a station which transmits broadcast matter by radio waves, wire or cable for reception by the general public and includes the studio, transmitting station and technical equipment used for transmitting broadcast matter;

“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Corporation appointed under subsection (1) of section 4, and includes any person appointed to act as Chairman;

“company auditor” means a person approved as a company auditor for the purposes of the Companies Act (Cap. 185);

“Corporation” means the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation established under section 3;

“Deputy Chairman” means the Deputy Chairman of the Corporation appointed under subsection (1) of section 4, and includes any person appointed to act as Deputy Chairman;

“General Manager” means the General Manager of Broadcasting appointed under subsection (1) of section 9, and includes any person acting in that capacity;

“member of the Corporation” includes the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Corporation;

“radio waves” means electromagnetic waves of frequencies lower than 3,000 gigacycles per second propagated in space without artificial guide;

“wire or cable” means any wire or cable used for the purpose of transmitting or receiving broadcast matter with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same, and any appliances and apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of fixing or insulating the same.

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