Section 52ZE — Competition and Consumer Act 2010: Notification of bargaining

(1) The bargaining news business representative for a registered news business may notify a responsible digital platform corporation for a designated digital platform service that it wishes to bargain over one or more specified issues relating to the registered news business’ covered news content made available by the designated digital platform service. (2) If the bargaining news business representative is the bargaining news business representative for 2 or more registered news businesses, a notification made for the purposes of subsection (1) may relate to some or all of those registered news businesses. (3) If the responsible digital platform corporation is the responsible digital platform corporation for 2 or more designated digital platform services: (a) a notification made for the purposes of subsection (1) may relate to some or all of those designated digital platform services; and (b) where the notification relates to more than one designated digital platform service—treat references in this Division and in Division 7 to the designated digital platform service as including references to each of the designated digital platform services to which the notification relates. (4) A notification made for the purposes of subsection (1) must set out the following matters: (a) the bargaining news business representative; (b) each registered news business to which the notification relates; (c) the designated digital platform service; (d) the responsible digital platform corporation for the designated digital platform service; (e) the specified issues mentioned in subsection (1); (f) if regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph specify other matters—those matters. (5) A notification made for the purposes of subsection (1) cannot be later varied to relate to a registered news business that was not set out in the notification.