Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00023:section:130zw
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00023
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 130ZW
Character Range: 621923–624847

130ZW  Categories for subscription television general entertainment services
 (1) For the purposes of this Part, if a subscription television licensee provides at least one, but fewer than 19, subscription television general entertainment services in a financial year, those services are Category A subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year.
 (2) For the purposes of this Part, if a subscription television licensee provides more than 18, but fewer than 35, subscription television general entertainment services in a financial year:
 (a) if the licensee, by written notice given to the ACMA before the end of the financial year, nominates 18 of those services to be Category A subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year:
 (i) the nominated services are Category A subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year; and
 (ii) the remainder of those services are Category B subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year; or
 (b) otherwise—each of those services is a Category A subscription television general entertainment service for the financial year.
 (3) For the purposes of this Part, if a subscription television licensee provides more than 34 subscription television general entertainment services in a financial year:
 (a) if the licensee, by written notice given to the ACMA before the end of the financial year, nominates:
 (i) 18 of those services to be Category A subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year; and
 (ii) 16 of those services (other than services nominated under subparagraph (i)) to be Category B subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year;
  then:
 (iii) the services nominated under subparagraph (i) are Category A subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year; and
 (iv) the services nominated under subparagraph (ii) are Category B subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year; and
 (v) the remainder of those services are Category C subscription television general entertainment services for the financial year; or
 (b) otherwise—each of those services is a Category A subscription television general entertainment service for the financial year.

Exclusion of time‑shifting services and high definition services
 (4) This section does not apply to a subscription television service provided by a subscription television licensee if the service does no more than:
 (a) transmit the same stream of programs that has been previously transmitted on another subscription television service provided by the licensee; or
 (b) simultaneously transmit, in a high definition format, the same stream of programs that is transmitted, in a standard definition format, on another subscription television service provided by the licensee.