חוק השידור הציבורי הישראלי (תיקון מס' 5), התשע"ו-2016Israeli Public Broadcasting Law (Amendment No. 5), 2016 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Israeli Public Broadcasting Law (Amendment No. 5), 2016 (hereinafter – the Amendment), was passed in its second and third readings on 3 August 2016. The Amendment provides that the commencement date of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Law, 2014 (hereinafter – the Law), as well as the date of commencement of broadcasts by the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (hereinafter – the Corporation), will be 30 April 2017. The Amendment provides that the Minister of Communications and the Minister of Finance (hereinafter – the Ministers) may advance by order the commencement date of the Law, if the Council has notified them that the Corporation is ready to begin broadcasting, provided that the Council gave such notice 45 days before the stated commencement date, published the notice on the Corporation's website, and delivered a copy of it to the liquidator of the Broadcasting Authority and to the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee. The Ministers may also advance the commencement date by order even if no such notice was given, provided that the order was published 35 days before the stated commencement date. The Amendment further provides that the majority of the Corporation's broadcasts will be broadcast from Jerusalem no later than 1 June 2018. The Amendment establishes stages to ensure implementation of Section 5 of the Law, which concerns the Corporation's obligation to broadcast the majority of its broadcasts from Jerusalem. According to the Amendment, from 1 January 2017 until 31 May 2018, meetings of the Corporation's management and the Council will be held in Jerusalem, and the Corporation will broadcast the news editions of Kol Israel from Jerusalem. From 1 July 2017 until 31 May 2018, at least half of the employees of the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation will be based in Jerusalem. The Amendment establishes a sanction of budget delay for violation of these stages by the Corporation. In addition, the Amendment establishes budgetary adjustments resulting from the postponement of the Law's commencement date. The Amendment also provides that the Broadcasting Authority will vacate the Broadcasting Authority's compound in Romema, Jerusalem, within six months of the Law's commencement date. The Amendment will enter into force on the date of its publication.

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