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Title: Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007
State: Central
Year: 2007
THE SPORTS BROADCASTING SIGNALS (MANDATORY SHARING WITH PRASAR BHARATI) ACT, 2007 [Act No. 11 of 2007] [19th March, 2007 ] PREAMBLE An Act to provide access to the largest number of listeners and viewers, on a free to air basis, of sporting events of national importance through mandatory sharing of sports broadcasting signals with Prasar Bharati and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--
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Title: Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007
State: Central
Year: 2007
Preamble1 - SPORTS BROADCASTING SIGNALS (MANDATORY SHARING WITH PRASAR BHARATI) Act, 2007 Chapter I Section1 - Short title, extent and Commencement Section2 - Definitions Chapter II Section3 - Mandatory sharing of certain sports broadcasting signals Section4 - Penalties Chapter III Section5 - Power of the Central Government to issue Guidelines Chapter IV Section6 - Validation Section7 - Power of the Central Government to make rules Section8 - Rules and Guidelines to be laid before Parliament Section9 - Saving Section10 - Repeal and saving
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Title: Mandatory Sharing of Sport Broadcasting Signals with Prasar Bharati
State: Central
Year: 2007
.....or holder and the Prasar Bharati shall be in the ratio of not less than 75:25 in case of television coverage and 50:50 in case of radio coverage. (3) The Central Government may specify a percentage of the revenue received by the Prasar Bharati under sub-section (2), which shall be utilised by the Prasar Bharati for broadcasting other sporting events. Section 4 - Penalties The Central Government may specify penalties to be imposed, including suspension or revocation of licence, permission or registration, for violation of various terms and conditions as may be specified under section 3, subject to the condition that amount of a pecuniary penalty shall not exceed one crore rupees: Provided that no penalty shall be imposed without giving a reasonable opportunity to the service provider: Provided further that no act or omission on the part of any person after the 11th November, 2005 and before the date of promulgation of the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Ordinance, 2007(Ord.4 of 2007) shall be subjected to penalties.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007 Chapter IV
Title: Miscellaneous
State: Central
Year: 2007
.....Government to make rules The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Section 8 - Rules and Guidelines to be laid before Parliament Every rule and Guidelines made and issued, as the case may be, under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made or issued, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive session aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or Guidelines, or both Houses agree that the rule or Guidelines should not be made, the rule or Guidelines shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or Guidelines. Section 9 - Saving The relevant provisions under the Guidelines for Downlinking of Television Channels issued on the 11th November, 2005 and.....
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Title: Powers of the Central Government to Issue Guidelines
State: Central
Year: 2007
The Central Government shall take all such measures, as it deems fit or expedient, by way of issuing Guidelines for mandatory sharing of broadcasting signals with Prasar Bharati relating to sporting events of national importance: Provided that the Guidelines issued before the promulgation of the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Ordinance, 2007(Ord.4 of 2007) shall be deemed to have been issued validly under the provisions of this section.
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Title: Power of the Central Government to Issue Guidelines
State: Central
Year: 2007
The Central Government shall take all such measures, as it deems fit or expedient, by way of issuing Guidelines for mandatory sharing of broadcasting signals with Prasar Bharati relating to sporting events of national importance: Provided that the Guidelines issued before the promulgation of the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Ordinance, 2007(Ord.4 of 2007) shall be deemed to have been issued validly under the provisions of this section.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007 Section 10
Title: Repeal and Saving
State: Central
Year: 2007
(1) The Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Ordinance, 2007(Ord. 4 of 2007) is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Ordinance, 2007(Ord. 4 of 2007), anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act. Saving Repeal and saving.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007 Chapter I
Title: Preliminary
State: Central
Year: 2007
.....cable operators; (m) "Prasar Bharati" means the Corporation known as the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) established under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990(25 of 1990); (n) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (o) "satellite television service" means a television broadcasting service provided by using a satellite, and received with or without the help of a local delivery system but does not include Direct-to-Home delivery service; (p) "satellite radio service" means a radio broadcasting service provided by using a satellite and directly receivable through receiver sets by multiple subscribers in India; (q) "service provider" means provider of a broadcasting service; (r) "specified" means specified under the Guidelines issued under section 5; (s) "sporting events of national importance" means such national or international sporting events, held in India or abroad, as may be notified by the Central Government in the Official Gazette to be of national importance; (t) "terrestrial television service" means a television broadcasting service provided over the air.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionSports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act, 2007 Section 1
Title: Short Title, Extent and Commencement
State: Central
Year: 2007
(1) This Act may be called the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act; 2007. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) Save as otherwise provided, it shall be deemed to have come into force on the 11th day of November, 2005. Short title, extent and Commencement.
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Title: Mandatory Sharing of Certain Sports Broadcasting Signals
State: Central
Year: 2007
(1) No content rights owner or holder and no television or radio broadcasting service provider shall carry a live television broadcast on any cable or Direct-to-Home network or radio commentary broadcast in India of sporting events of national importance, unless it simultaneously shares the live broadcasting signal, without its advertisements, with the Prasar Bharati to enable them to re-transmit the same on its terrestrial networks and Direct-to-Home networks in such manner and on such terms and conditions as may be specified. (2) The terms and conditions under sub-section (1) shall also provide that the advertisement revenue sharing between the content rights owner or holder and the Prasar Bharati shall be in the ratio of not less than 75:25 in case of television coverage and 50:50 in case of radio coverage. (3) The Central Government may specify a percentage of the revenue received by the Prasar Bharati under sub-section (2), which shall be utilised by the Prasar Bharati for broadcasting other sporting events.
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