Broadcasting Act (S.C. 1991, c. 11)

Marginal note:Amendment of schedule

30. The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister made on the request of the Commission and with the consent of the Corporation, amend the schedule.

Marginal note:Decisions and orders final

• 31. (1) Except as provided in this Part, every decision and order of the Commission is final and conclusive.

• Marginal note:Appeal to Federal Court of Appeal

  (2) An appeal lies from a decision or order of the Commission to the Federal Court of Appeal on a question of law or a question of jurisdiction if leave therefor is obtained from that Court on application made within one month after the making of the decision or order sought to be appealed from or within such further time as that Court under special circumstances allows.

• Marginal note:Entry of appeal

  (3) No appeal lies after leave therefor has been obtained under subsection (2) unless it is entered in the Federal Court of Appeal within sixty days after the making of the order granting leave to appeal.

• Marginal note:Document deemed decision or order

  (4) Any document issued by the Commission in the form of a decision or order shall, if it relates to the issue, amendment, renewal, revocation or suspension of a licence, be deemed for the purposes of this section to be a decision or order of the Commission.

Marginal note:Broadcasting without or contrary to licence

• 32. (1) Every person who, not being exempt from the requirement to hold a licence, carries on a broadcasting undertaking without a licence therefor is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable

  • (a) in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for each day that the offence continues; or

  • (b) in the case of a corporation, to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars for each day that the offence continues.

• Marginal note:Contravention of regulation or order

  (2) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulation or order made under this Part is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable

  • (a) in the case of an individual, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for a first offence and not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for each subsequent offence; or

  • (b) in the case of a corporation, to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a first offence and not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars for each subsequent offence.

Marginal note:Contravention of conditions of licence

33. Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any condition of a licence issued to the person is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Marginal note:Limitation

34. Proceedings for an offence under subsection 32(2) or section 33, may be instituted within, but not after, two years after the time when the subject-matter of the proceedings arose.