{"id":"C1978L00202","name":"Broadcasting and Television (Special Broadcasting Service) Regulations","slug":"broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"202 of 1978","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":25259,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1978L00202-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Broadcasting and Television (Special Broadcasting Service) Regulations","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nStatutory Rules\n\n1978 No. 202\n\nREGULATIONS UNDER THE BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION ACT 1942\\*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942.\n\nDated this nineteenth day of October 1978.\n\nZELMAN COWEN\n\nGovernor-General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nA. A. STALEY\n\nMinister of State for Post and Telecommunications\n\nBROADCASTING AND TELEVISION (SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE) REGULATIONS\n\nCitation\n\n1\\. These Regulations may be cited as the Broadcasting and Television (Special Broadcasting Service) Regulations.\n\nInterpretation\n\n2\\. In these Regulations, “ the Act ” means the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942.\n\nProvision of multilingual television services authorized\n\n3\\. For the purposes of section 79d of the Act, the Service is authorized to provide multilingual television services.\n\n\\* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 26 October 1978.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1227},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"rejection_reason":"","scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"These regulations remain focused on their original 1978 purpose of authorising SBS to provide multilingual television services. There is no evidence of scope expansion beyond this single enabling function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 sections in total","Single substantive provision (section 3) consisting of one sentence","Only 1 defined term ('the Act')","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","No internal cross-references beyond the parent Act citation"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations give the **Special Broadcasting Service (SBS)** the legal power to broadcast television programs in multiple languages.\n\nBefore 1978, SBS was only authorised to run multilingual radio. These regulations changed the rules to let SBS launch television services for Australia's diverse migrant communities. \n\nThe regulations are extremely short—only three sections—and do just one thing: they authorise SBS to provide TV services in languages other than English under section 79d of the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations","history":"/api/acts/broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/broadcasting-and-television-special-broadcasting-service-regulations/documents"}}