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broadcasters to maintain standards of good taste and decency and to show balance when dealing with controversial matters.

(xxi) In interlocutory decision ID1/92, the authority decided in all the circumstances to decline to determine a complaint from Mr R. W. Kilgour of Alexandra about a broadcast by QFM Radio of Queenstown in April 1992.

(xxii) In interlocutory decision ID2/92, the authority decided in all the circumstances to decline to determine a complaint from Mr Donald Dorf of Auckland about a broadcast by Television New Zealand Limited of an item on Tonight on 18 June 1992.

Copies of decisions may be purchased from the Broadcasting Standards Authority, P.O. Box 9213, Wellington, at the price of $5.00 each or by annual subscription of $100.00.

Dated at Wellington this 30th day of October 1992.

G. POWELL, Executive Director.
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Wellington Central By-Election

Qualification of Political Parties for Allocation of Broadcasting Time for Election Programmes

The Broadcasting Standards Authority ("the authority") is writing to broadcasters in Wellington, and national broadcasters whose signals are transmitted in Wellington, inviting them to make free time available to political parties for the broadcasting of election programmes before the Wellington Central by-election. While it has not received responses from all the broadcasters concerned, the authority gives notice, pursuant to section 70A of the Broadcasting Act 1989 (as amended by the Broadcasting Amendment Act 1990) ("the Act"), that any political party that considers that it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 of the Act (should it be made available by broadcasters) for the broadcasting of election programmes during the election period associated with the 1992 Wellington Central by-election ("the election") must, pursuant to section 70A, notify the authority in writing that it considers itself so qualified.

Any such notice must be received in writing by the authority no later than noon on Monday, 9 November 1992. It should be addressed to the Executive Officer, Second Floor, 54–56 Cambridge Terrace, P.O. Box 9213, Wellington.

Any political party that considers it will qualify for an allocation of time under section 73 of the Act in respect of the election period must state, pursuant to section 70b of the Act—

(a) the full name of the political party;

(b) in respect of each person belonging to the political party who has declared his or her intention of becoming a candidate at the election—

(i) the full name of that person; and

Under the provisions of section 70b of the Act any such person named in a notice to the authority shall, until noon on nomination day for the election, be deemed, for the purposes of subsection (1) (d) of section 75 of the Act to be a candidate at the election, whether that person is nominated or not.

The attention of political parties is drawn to section 75 (1) of the Act, which provides that—

"The authority shall not allocate any time to a political party under section 73 of the Act unless—

"(a) That political party conducts its affairs throughout New Zealand and has a national organisation; and

"(b) That political party has consistently expressed philosophies or policies on a range of issues over the 12 months immediately preceding the issue of the writ for the election; and".

(d) In the case of a by-election,—

"(i) A person belonging to that political party is a candidate at that by-election; and

"(ii) Persons belonging to that party were candidates at the immediately preceding general election for at least 10 seats in the House of Representatives.

The authority requests that any party giving notice by the due date include submissions in support of its consideration that it qualifies for time, according to the criteria of section 75 (1); and for submissions on the allocation of time according to section 75 (2) and other relevant parts of the Act. Should free time be made available by broadcasters, the authority will consult with parties as required by section 76.

The Act further provides, in section 76, that the failure of any political party to give notice in accordance with section 70A of the Act or to avail itself of the opportunity to meet with and be heard by the authority under section 76, or to comply with any other request by the authority shall not prevent the authority from making decisions on the allocation of time, or affect the validity of those decisions.

G. POWELL, Executive Officer.
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New Zealand Fire Service

Fire Service Act 1975

Taranaki Fire Districts Notice 1992

Pursuant to section 26 of the Fire Service Act 1975, the New Zealand Fire Service Commission hereby gives the following notice:

Notice

1. This notice may be cited as the Taranaki Fire Districts Notice 1992.

2. This notice shall come into force on the 16th day of November 1992.

3. This notice revokes and is in substitution for all previous Fire District Notices for each of the Fire Districts listed in the Schedule.

Constitution of Fire Districts

4. The Urban areas of the city and towns listed in the Schedule are hereby constituted into Fire Districts.

5. The boundaries of the constituted Fire Districts listed in the Schedule are defined and delineated on plans held at the National Headquarters of the New Zealand Fire Service, Wellington.

Schedule

• New Plymouth

• Inglewood

• Okato

• Urenui

• Waitara

• Stratford

• Eltham

• Kaponga

• Opunake

• Hawera

• Manaia

• Patea

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of October 1992.

B. S. ARMSTRONG, Chief Executive, New Zealand Fire Service.

(Reference: OPS 4/1/3C01 to OPS 4/1/3C12 inclusive).
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