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that table has previously been taken to be altered by substituting another amount in accordance with this section – the last substituted amount;
      latest CPI number is the CPI number for the quarter ending on 30 September before the relevant year; and
      previous indexable amount means the indexable amount in force immediately before 1 January of the relevant year.
      (3) The amount worked out under subsection (2) is to be rounded to the nearest thousand dollars and, if the amount to be rounded is $500, rounded down.
      (4) For subsection (2):
(a) if the Australian Statistician publishes a CPI number for a quarter in substitution for a CPI number previously published by the Australian Statistician for that quarter, the publication of the later index number must be disregarded; and
(b) if the Australian Statistician changes the reference base for the Consumer Price Index, then, for this section after the change is made, regard must be had only to the CPI numbers published using the new reference base.

16 Regional/remote licensees may rely on metropolitan licensees

      A regional/remote commercial television broadcasting licensee is deemed to have complied with section 13 for a calendar year if the amount of time of first release Australian programs, from any of the genres mentioned in the table in Schedule 1, broadcast by the licensee in that year on its relevant regional channels is not less than the amount broadcast by a metropolitan commercial television broadcasting licensee on its equivalent metropolitan channels during the same year.

17 Reporting to the ACMA
      (1)      By 31 March 2022, and by each 31 March thereafter, each licensee must provide to the ACMA in writing in respect of the preceding calendar year:
(a) the number of hours of programming of each genre category specified in the table in Schedule 1 that was broadcast in that year;
(b) the licence fees and/or production budget cost per hour for each program claimed against the quota;

(c) the licensee's total expenditure on first release Australian programs in each genre category specified in the table in Schedule 1 that was broadcast in that year; and

(d) such further information (if any) as the ACMA may specify in writing as being reasonably required to demonstrate a licensee's compliance with section 13.

      (2)      The ACMA may specify a form to be used by licensees for the purposes of subsection (1).

      (3)      Any form specified under subsection (2) must be published by the ACMA on its website.

      (4)      Any requirement for further information under paragraph (1)(d) must be published by the ACMA on its website.

Part 4—Protections for child viewers
Division 1 – General protections for child viewers

18 Application of this Division

       This Division applies to