Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022C00749:reg:5:p152
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022C00749
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 152/202)
Character Range: 1511528–1519722

2012
 Production consoles                                                                                                                                                                     10            *         1 Jul 2012
Control room assets generally:
 Electronically based assets (including audio  processors, audio switchers, aural studio to  transmitter linkage assets, distribution amplifiers,               monitor receivers etc)   10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Personal computer based assets (including delay  units, logging units, program fail detectors, RDS  generators etc)                                                                     6             *         1 Jul 2012
Digital audio players and recorders (including CD, DVD, mini disc, hard disc and solid state players and recorders)                                                                      5             *         1 Jul 2012
Headphones and headsets                                                                                                                                                                  2             *         1 Jul 2012
Intercommunication systems (standalone)                                                                                                                                                  10            *         1 Jul 2012
Microphones:
 Field and portable microphones                                                                                                                                                          5             *         1 Jul 2012
 Studio based microphones (including recording  microphones)                                                                                                                             10            *         1 Jul 2012
Microwave and satellite telecommunications assets - see Table A Telecommunications services (58010 to 58090)
Mobile production vehicles (excluding the assets contained within) - see Table B Motor vehicles and trailers
On air lights                                                                                                                                                                            15            *         1 Jul 2012
Racks                                                                                                                                                                                    20            *         1 Jul 2012
Servers, domain controllers, switches, transcoders etc                                                                                                                                   6             *         1 Jul 2012
Studio based digital audio broadcasting infrastructure (encoding assets etc)                                                                                                             10            *         1 Jul 2012
Telephone systems:
 Telephone interface assets generally (used for  sending and receiving audio to and from connected  telephone lines)                                                                     10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Telephone screening systems and other personal  computer based telephone systems (excluding  software)                                                                                  6             *         1 Jul 2012
 Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) based systems                                                                                                                                       7             *         1 Jul 2012
Time code generators                                                                                                                                                                     10            *         1 Jul 2012
Transmission assets:
 Antennas                                                                                                                                                                                20            *         1 Jul 2012
 Codecs                                                                                                                                                                                  10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Fibre optic terminal equipment generally                                                                                                                                                10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Generators (backup)                                                                                                                                                                     15            *         1 Jul 2012
 Obstruction lighting                                                                                                                                                                    15            *         1 Jul 2012
 Power conditioners                                                                                                                                                                      15            *         1 Jul 2012
 RF switching units                                                                                                                                                                      15            *         1 Jul 2012
 Signal receiving and monitoring assets (including  audio processors, decoders, modulation monitors,  spectrum analysers etc)                                                            10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Silence detection and switching units                                                                                                                                                   10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Surge arresters                                                                                                                                                                         10            *         1 Jul 2012
 Translators                                                                                                                                                                             15            *         1 Jul 2012
 Transmission towers                                                                                                                                                                     40            *         1 Jul 2012
 Transmitters                                                                                                                                                                            15            *         1 Jul 2012
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) assets - see Table B Power supply assets

Television broadcasting
(56210 to 56220)
ASSET                                                                                                                                                                       LIFE (YEARS)  REVIEWED  DATE OF APPLICATION
Audio boards, consoles and mixers                                                                                                                                           12            *         1 Jul 2005
Audio delay units                                                                                                                                                           10            *         1 Jul 2005
Audio effects units (including compression units, delay units, graphic equalisers and reverberation units)                                                                  12            *         1 Jul 2005
Automated tape library systems (incorporating robotic controls and tape drives)                                                                                             10            *         1 Jul 2005
Broadcast antennas                                                                                                                                                          20            *         1 Jul 2005
Broadcast interfacing assets (including aspect ratio converters, distribution amplifiers, sync pulse generators, timecode generators and