Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BROADCASTING SERVICES ACT 1992 - SECT 130ZYA

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if a target reduction order under section   130ZY is applicable to a subscription television service for a financial year.

Subscription television broadcasting and narrowcasting services

  (2)   The subscription television licensee who provides the service must ensure that the percentage worked out using the following formula is not less than the reduced annual captioning target for the service for the financial year:

where:

"total captioned hours" means the total number of hours of television programs transmitted on the service during the financial year for which a captioning service was provided.

"total program hours" means the total number of hours of television programs transmitted on the service during the financial year.

Standard captioning targets do not apply

  (3)   Subsection   130ZV(1) does not apply to the service for the financial year.