The AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY makes this Instrument under subsection 130ZZA(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Dated 24 February 2016

Chris Chapman
[signed]
Member

Richard Bean
[signed]
Member/General Manager

1 Name of Instrument

 This Instrument is the Broadcasting Services (Television Captioning) Standard Variation 2016 (No.1).

2 Commencement

 This Instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

Note: All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au.

3 Variation of the Broadcasting Services (Television Captioning) Standard 2013

 Schedule 1 varies the Broadcasting Services (Television Captioning) Standard 2013.

Schedule 1 Variation

  At the end of section 6, insert:

Note: Whilst noting that it is not authorised to determine that a lower quality of captioning service is acceptable for a kind of program or program material (see subsection 130ZZA(2B) of the Act), in determining this Standard, the ACMA has considered the differences (including time constraints for live content) between providing captioning services for live and pre-recorded television programs; and wholly live or wholly pre-recorded television programs and television programs that include both live and pre-recorded program material (see subsection 130ZZA(2A) of the Act).