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may make broadcasting facilities and staff available to the person so that the person can transmit programs to the general public pursuant to the licence.
"(2) Subsection (1) does not limit the power of the Service to provide facilities for the transmission of programs by other persons.".

Responsibility for programs
21. Section 79f of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:
"(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in a case where the Service makes broadcasting facilities available to a person under section 79ea.".

22. After section 81 of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Who is eligible for the grant of a licence?
"81aa. (1) A commercial licence shall only be granted to a company that is formed within the limits of the Commonwealth or a Territory and has a share capital.
"(2) A public licence shall only be granted to a corporation that is formed within the limits of the Commonwealth or a Territory.
"(3) A public licence shall not be granted to:
     (a) a corporation whose objects include the acquisition of profit or gain for the benefit of its individual members;
     (b) a government corporation; or

     (c) a political party.
"(4) A remote licence shall only be granted to:
     (a) a company that is formed within the limits of the Commonwealth or a Territory and has a share capital; or
     (b) a consortium of companies to which paragraph (a) applies.
"(5) A limited licence shall only be granted to a corporation that is formed within the limits of the Commonwealth or a Territory.

Licence held by a consortium
"81ab. Where a remote licence or a supplementary radio licence is granted to the members of a consortium:
     (a) the persons to whom the licence is granted take the licence in equal undivided shares as owners in common;
     (b) references in the licence, in this Act and in any other law to the licensee or to the holder of the licence shall be read as references to each co-owner of the licence; and
     (c) the performance by a co-owner of the licence of an obligation imposed by the licence, by this Act or by any other law on the licensee or the holder of the licence shall, to the extent of that performance, be deemed to release that co-owner and each other co-owner of the licence from that obligation.".

23. After section 81a of the Principal Act the following sections are inserted:

Purpose of limited licence
"81b. (1) A limited licence shall be granted for:
     (a) information purposes;
     (b) special event purposes;
     (c) remote Aboriginal community purposes;
     (d) special interest purposes; or
     (e) a purpose specified by the regulations in accordance with