Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00023:section:125a:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00023
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 125A (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 504342–507185

narrowcasting services;
to ensure that, if live coverage of a sporting event is, or is to be, broadcast on a broadcasting service provided by the licensee or provider, the licensee or provider will:
 (f) make records that:
 (i) are of a kind or kinds specified in the standard; and
 (ii) are sufficient to enable compliance by the licensee or provider with a gambling promotion program standard made for the purposes of subsection (5) or (6) to be readily ascertained; and
 (g) retain those records for the period ascertained in accordance with the first‑mentioned standard; and
 (h) make those retained records available to the ACMA on request.
Note: See also subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.
 (8) For the purposes of subparagraph (7)(f)(i), each of the following is an example of a kind of record:
 (a) a written record;
 (b) an audio record;
 (c) an audio‑visual record.

Accidental or incidental broadcast of gambling promotional content
 (9) A gambling promotion program standard does not apply in relation to the broadcasting of gambling promotional content on a broadcasting service if:
 (a) the gambling promotional content is broadcast as an accidental or incidental accompaniment to the broadcasting of other matter; and
 (b) the licensee or provider of the broadcasting service does not receive any direct or indirect benefit (whether financial or not) for broadcasting the gambling promotional content (in addition to any direct or indirect benefit that the licensee or provider receives for broadcasting the other matter).

Live coverage of a sporting event
 (10) For the purposes of this section, if:
 (a) live coverage of a sporting event is broadcast on a broadcasting service; and
 (b) there is an unscheduled break in the sporting event;
any matter broadcast on the service during the break is taken to be live coverage of the sporting event.

Gambling promotional content broadcast in conjunction with live coverage of a sporting event
 (11) For the purposes of this section, gambling promotional content (other than a commentator betting odds promotion or a representative venue‑based promotion) is broadcast on a broadcasting service in conjunction with live coverage of a sporting event if, and only if, the content is broadcast on the service during the period:
 (a) beginning 5 minutes before the scheduled start of the sporting event; and
 (b) ending 5 minutes after the conclusion of the sporting event.
 (12) However, if coverage of the sporting event is delayed, this section has effect as if there were a corresponding delay to the period mentioned in subsection (11).
 (13) For the purposes of this section, gambling promotional content that consists of a commentator betting odds promotion or a representative venue‑based promotion is broadcast on a broadcasting service in conjunction with