Part 1Preliminary

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

This is the Broadcasting Services (Television Captioning) Standard 2023.

2 Commencement

This standard commences at the start of the day after the day it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Note: The Federal Register of Legislation may be accessed free of charge at www.legislation.gov.au.

3 Authority

This standard is made under subsection 130ZZA(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

4 Repeal of the Broadcasting Services (Television Captioning) Standard 2013

The Broadcasting Services (Television Captioning) Standard 2013 (Registration No F2013L00918) is repealed.

5 Object of this standard

The object of this standard is to specify mandatory requirements for broadcasters and narrowcasters that relate to the quality of captioning services, to ensure that captioning services are meaningful to deaf and hard of hearing viewers.

6 Definitions

In this standard:

Terms that are defined in the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 have the same meaning as in that Act, unless the contrary intention appears.

Act means the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

broadcaster means a commercial television broadcasting licensee, a national broadcaster or a subscription television broadcasting licensee.

captioning obligations means the legislative obligations under Part 9D of the Act that require:

(a) commercial television broadcasting licensees and national broadcasters to provide a captioning service for programs transmitted under subsection 130ZR(1) of the Act;

(b) commercial television broadcasting licensees and national broadcasters to provide a captioning service for programs transmitted on their respective multi-channelled commercial or national television broadcasting services under section 130ZS of the Act;

(c) subscription television licensees to transmit a minimum percentage of hours of captioned programs per year under section 130ZV of the Act; and

(d) subscription television licensees to provide a captioning service for programs transmitted on a subscription television service under sections 130ZZ and 130ZZAA of the Act.