AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION ACT 1983
- SECT 31
Advertisements

(1)

The Corporation shall not broadcast advertisements.

(2)

Subsection (1) does not prevent the Corporation, if the Board thinks fit, from broadcasting:

(a)

any announcement relating to any activity or proposed activity of the Corporation;

(b)

a program supplied by any organization or person engaged in artistic, literary, musical or theatrical production or in educational pursuits; or

(c)

a program supplied by any organization or person other than a program that is, in the opinion of the Corporation, being used as an advertisement;

or from broadcasting any matter the broadcasting of which is directed by the Minister pursuant to subsection 78(1).

(3)

Subsection (1) does not apply to:

(a)

the broadcasting of any matter by the Corporation's international television service and its associated audio channels outside Australia; or

(b)

the broadcasting of any matter by the Corporation's international television service and its associated audio channels inside Australia that is merely incidental to the broadcasting of the matter outside Australia.