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Schedule 1—Genre point allocation

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name
        These are the Broadcasting Services (Australian Content and Children's Television) Standards 2020.

2 Commencement
      These standards commence on 1 January 2021.

3 Authority
      These standards are made under subsection 122(1) of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

4 Repeal of the Broadcasting Services (Australian Content) Standard 2016 and the Children's Television Standards 2009
      The Broadcasting Services (Australian Content) Standard 2016 (Registration No. F2016L00392) and the Children's Television Standards 2009 (Registration No. F2009L03416) are repealed.

5 References to other instruments
      In these standards, unless the contrary intention appears:
          (a)           a reference to the Broadcasting (Australian Content) Standard 2016 is a reference to that standard as in force on 31 December 2020;
          (b)           a reference to the Children's Television Standards 2009 is a reference to those standards as in force on 31 December 2020; and
          (c)           a reference to the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice is a reference to that code of practice as in force on 31 December 2020.
            Note 1: For references to Commonwealth Acts, see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901; and see also subsection 13(1) of the Legislation Act 2003 for the application of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to legislative instruments.
            Note 2: All Commonwealth Acts and legislative instruments are registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

6 Objects of these standards
      The objects of these standards are to:
          (a)           promote the role of commercial television broadcasting services in developing and reflecting a sense of Australian identity, character and cultural diversity by supporting the community's continued access to television programs produced under Australian creative control; and
          (b)           provide children with certain protections from the possible harmful effects of television.

7 What these standards do
      (1)      These standards:
          (a)           require minimum amounts of first release Australian programs from the genres mentioned in the table in Schedule 1 to be broadcast by commercial television broadcasting licensees; and
          (b)           require licensees to comply with certain protections for child viewers.
      (2)      In order to be consistent with Australia's international co‑production obligations, these standards recognise Australian official co‑productions equally with Australian programs for the purposes of compliance with these standards.
      (3)      While Australian culture and New Zealand culture are different from each other, in order to be consistent with the CER Trade in Services Protocol, these standards recognise New Zealand programs and Australian/New Zealand programs equally with Australian programs for the purposes of compliance with these standards.
            Note: Section 16 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 provides that:

            "[t]he ACMA must perform its broadcasting, content and datacasting functions, and exercise its powers relating to those functions, in a manner consistent with Australia's obligations under the CER Trade in Services