{"id":"F2024L01655","name":"Broadcasting Services (Anti-Siphoning List) Instrument 2024","slug":"broadcasting-services-anti-siphoning-list-instrument-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442666,"registerId":"F2024L01655-fast-fetch-1775957625167","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Broadcasting Services (Anti-Siphoning List) Instrument 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\ntitle: \"Broadcasting Services (Anti-Siphoning List) Instrument [Year]\"\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nBroadcasting Services (Anti-Siphoning List) Instrument 2024\n\nI, Michelle Rowland, Minister for Communications, make the following instrument.\n\nDated 29 November 2024\n\nMichelle Rowland\n\nMinister for Communications\n\nContents\n\n1  Name\n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\n5  Specification of events\n\nSchedule 1—Events\n\n1  Interpretation\n\n2  Olympic Games\n\n3  Summer Paralympic Games\n\n4  Commonwealth Games\n\n5  Horse racing\n\n6  Australian rules football\n\n7  Rugby league football\n\n8  Rugby union football\n\n9  Cricket\n\n10  Soccer\n\n11  Tennis\n\n12  Netball\n\n13  Motor sports\n\n \n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Broadcasting Services (Anti-Siphoning List) Instrument 2024.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n  This instrument commences at the same time as Schedule 2 to the Communications Legislation Amendment (Prominence and Anti-siphoning) Act 2024.\n\nNote: This instrument replaces any instruments previously made under subsection 115(1) of the Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this instrument. Those instruments will be impliedly repealed.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under subsection 146V(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.\n\n4  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.\n\n5  Specification of events\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 146V(1) of the Act, an event, or event of a kind, mentioned in Schedule 1 is specified as an event, or event of a kind, the televising of which should, in my opinion, be available free to the general public.  \n\n\nSchedule 1—Events\n\n1  Interpretation\n\n (1) This clause applies to the interpretation of this schedule.\n\n (2) A reference to an event, or an event of a kind, is a reference to that event, or kind of event, held from time to time.\n\n (3) Unless otherwise provided, a reference to a named sporting competition includes each of the following references:\n\n (a) if the sporting competition consists of more than one event—a reference to each of the events;\n\nExamples: A multi-event tournament; an annual competition; the competition series of a sporting league or association.\n\n (b) if the sporting competition is held more than once—a reference to the sporting competition as held from time to time, irrespective of any other name by which it is also known or any change in its name;\n\n (c) if the sporting competition is restructured or rebranded into 2 or more sporting competitions—a reference to each of those sporting competitions;\n\n (d) if the sporting competition is expanded by the inclusion of further sports—a reference to each of the events in the expanded sporting competition;\n\n (e) if the sporting competition was previously limited to men’s events or to women’s events, and is expanded by including the other category—a reference to each of the events in the expanded sporting competition;\n\n (f) if the sporting competition consists of both a qualification phase and a final tournament—a reference to the final tournament, but not the qualification phase.\n\n (4) A reference to the name of a sporting body or organisation is a reference to that body or organisation irrespective of any other name by which it is also known or any change in its name from time to time.\n\n (5) A reference to:\n\n (a) a men’s event means an event in which only men are competitors; and\n\n (b) a women’s event means an event in which only women are competitors.\n\n2  Olympic Games\n\n (1) Each event held as part of the Summer Olympic Games, including the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony.\n\n (2) Each event held as part of the Winter Olympic Games, including the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony.\n\n3  Summer Paralympic Games\n\n  Each event held as part of the Summer Paralympic Games, including the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony.\n\n4  Commonwealth Games\n\n  Each event held as part of the Commonwealth Games, including the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony.\n\n5  Horse racing\n\n  Each running of the Melbourne Cup organised by the Victoria Racing Club.\n\n6  Australian rules football\n\nMen’s matches\n\n (1) Each match in the Australian Football League Premiership, including the Finals Series.\n\nWomen’s matches\n\n (2) Each match in the Finals Series of the Australian Football League Women’s Premiership.\n\n7  Rugby league football\n\nMen’s matches\n\n (1) Each match in the National Rugby League Premiership, including the Finals Series.\n\n (2) Each match in the National Rugby League State of Origin Series.\n\nWomen’s matches\n\n (3) Each match in the Finals Series of the National Rugby League Women’s Premiership.\n\n (4) Each match in the National Rugby League Women’s State of Origin Series.\n\nMen’s and women’s matches\n\n   (5) Each men’s or women’s international rugby league test match that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia or New Zealand.\n\n (6) Each men’s or women’s match in the Rugby League World Cup that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia, New Zealand or Papua New Guinea.\n\n8  Rugby union football\n\n (1) Each men’s or women’s international rugby union test match that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Rugby Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia or New Zealand.\n\n (2) Each men’s or women’s match in the Rugby World Cup that involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Rugby Australia.\n\n (3) The men’s or women’s finals of the Rugby World Cup.\n\n9  Cricket\n\n (1) Each men’s or women’s cricket test match that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Cricket Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia.\n\n (2) Each men’s or women’s cricket match of an Ashes series that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Cricket Australia; and\n\n (b) involves the senior English representative team; and\n\n (c) is played in Australia or the United Kingdom.\n\n (3) Each men’s or women’s One Day International cricket match that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Cricket Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia.\n\nNote: This subclause covers matches played under both the One Day International and the Women’s One Day International formats.\n\n (4) Each men’s or women’s Twenty20 International cricket match that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Cricket Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia.\n\nNote: This subclause covers matches played under both the Twenty20 International and the Women’s Twenty20 International formats.\n\n (5) Each match of the International Cricket Council Men’s Cricket World Cup and the International Cricket Council Women’s Cricket World Cup that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Cricket Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia or New Zealand.\n\n (6) The final of the International Cricket Council Men’s Cricket World Cup and the International Cricket Council Women’s Cricket World Cup, if the final is played in Australia or New Zealand.\n\n (7) Each match of the International Cricket Council Men’s T20 World Cup and the International Cricket Council Women’s T20 World Cup that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Cricket Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia or New Zealand.\n\n (8) The final of the International Cricket Council Men’s T20 World Cup and the International Cricket Council Women’s T20 World Cup, if the final is played in Australia or New Zealand.\n\n10  Soccer\n\nMen’s matches\n\n (1) Each match of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup that involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Football Australia.\n\n (2) The final of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup.\n\n (3) Each match in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup Qualification tournament that:\n\n (a) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Football Australia; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia.\n\nWomen’s matches\n\n (4) Each match of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Women’s World Cup that involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Football Australia.\n\n (5) The final of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Women’s World Cup.\n\n (6) Each women’s soccer match that:\n\n (a) is part of a tournament by which teams may qualify for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Women’s World Cup; and\n\nExample: The 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup was a tournament by which teams could qualify for the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association Women’s World Cup.\n\n (b) involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Football Australia; and\n\n (c) is played in Australia.\n\n11  Tennis\n\n (1) Each match in the Australian Open.\n\n (2) Each match in each tie of the International Tennis Federation Davis Cup World Group that:\n\n (a) involves an Australian representative team; and\n\n (b) is played in Australia.\n\n (2) The final of the International Tennis Federation Davis Cup World Group, if the final involves an Australian representative team.\n\n12  Netball\n\n  Each semi-final or final of the Netball World Cup that involves the senior Australian representative team selected by Netball Australia.\n\n13  Motor sports\n\n (1) Each race in the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile Formula One World Championship (Grand Prix) held in Australia.\n\n (2) Each race in the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme MotoGP World Championship held in Australia.\n\n (3) Each Bathurst 1000 race in the Supercars Championship.\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument maintains the traditional anti-siphoning scope established under predecessor legislation. While it updates specific competitions to reflect current naming conventions (e.g., 'AFL Women's' rather than historical equivalents) and expands explicit coverage of women's events to achieve parity in several sports, this represents evolution within the original policy intent rather than scope creep. The fundamental purpose—protecting free-to-air access to nationally significant sporting events—remains unchanged from the 1992 Act's original anti-siphoning framework."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple nested conditions for event coverage (e.g., 'involves Australian team AND played in Australia/NZ' appears repeatedly across clauses)","Gender-specific categorisation requiring separate treatment of men's and women's competitions in several sports (AFL, NRL, cricket, soccer, rugby union)","Extensive use of 'irrespective of name change' provisions to future-proof against rebranding (Schedule 1, clause 1(3)(b) and (4))","Qualification phase exclusions for multi-event tournaments (clause 1(3)(f)) creating negative conditions","Geographic restrictions varying by sport (e.g., cricket Ashes includes UK; rugby tests limited to Australia/NZ; soccer qualifiers Australia-only)","Hybrid coverage models where some competitions get full season coverage (AFL/NRL men's) while others get finals-only (AFL/NRL women's, netball)","Cross-references to external sporting bodies and their selection authority (e.g., 'selected by Cricket Australia', 'selected by Football Australia')"],"plain_english_summary":"This Instrument designates major sporting events that must be available on free-to-air TV in Australia, preventing pay TV and streaming services from buying exclusive rights unless free broadcasters have had a fair opportunity. It affects free-to-air networks, pay services, sporting bodies and fans—keeping culturally significant sport accessible and blocking pay-TV \"siphoning\" of marquee events."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The instrument expressly replaces prior anti‑siphoning instruments on commencement (Commencement note) and is made under subsection 146V(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (see s3). That means the formal list of designated free‑to‑air events is updated and the statutory basis for specifying those events differs from the earlier instrument-making provision; the instrument itself does not enumerate differences between the old and new lists."},"complexity_factors":["Ministerial discretion standard: events are listed based on the Minister’s opinion (s5), concentrating decision authority and creating a single point of specification.","Detailed sport‑specific conditions: Schedule 1 contains many event‑ and format‑specific triggers and location tests (e.g. Cricket clauses 9(1)–9(8); Soccer clauses 10(1)–10(6)), increasing parsing complexity for rights owners and broadcasters.","Interpretation rules: Schedule 1 clause 1(2)–1(5) sets rules for recurring events, renamed/restructured competitions, and treatment of qualification phases (1(3)(f)), which require legal interpretation when applied.","Cross‑jurisdictional conditions: multiple items depend on where an event is played (e.g. Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea), adding transaction complexity for international events (see various Schedule items).","Gender and competition‑structure inclusions: provisions explicitly address men’s and women’s events and expansion/restructuring of competitions (Schedule 1 clauses 1(3)(d)–1(3)(e); various sport clauses), affecting scope of coverage obligations.","Commencement and replacement: the instrument commences with the Communications Legislation Amendment and expressly replaces earlier instruments (Commencement note), requiring stakeholders to map old lists to the new list.","No operational or enforcement mechanics included: the instrument specifies events but does not set out procedural steps, compliance mechanisms or penalties in this text—those must be sourced from the Act or subordinate rules."],"plain_english_summary":"Mechanically, this ministerial instrument (made under subsection 146V of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992) names specific sporting events that, in the Minister’s opinion, should be available free to the general public (see s3–5 and Schedule 1). It therefore affects broadcasters, rights holders and viewers by designating which events are treated as free‑to‑air. It commences with the Communications Legislation Amendment and replaces prior anti‑siphoning instruments, setting detailed, event‑specific criteria that will influence rights negotiations and broadcast choices."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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