Broadcasting Services (Digital Television Format Standards) Regulations 2000 (Cth)

Broadcasting Services (Digital Television Format Standards) Regulations 2000

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 2721

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Dated 27 September 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications, Information Technology

and the Arts

Contents

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Part 1Preliminary

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Part 2SDTV format standards

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Part 1Preliminary

  

1.01Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Broadcasting Services (Digital Television Format Standards) Regulations 2000.

1.02Commencement

 These Regulations commence as follows:

• (a)

  on gazettal — Part 1;

• (b)

  on the commencement of item 126 of Schedule 1 to the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television and Datacasting) Act 2000 — Part 2.

1.03Definitions

 In these Regulations:

Act means the Broadcasting Services Act 1992.

Part 2SDTV format standards

  

2.01SDTV format standard for audio component of programs — remote and non-remote areas

• (1)

  For subclauses 37 (1) and 37B (1) of Schedule 4 to the Act, the standard determined in Schedule 1 is to be observed by:

  • (a)

    commercial television broadcasting licensees; and

  • (b)

    national broadcasters;

 in relation to the format in which television programs with an audio component are to be transmitted in SDTV digital mode.

• (2)

  However, the standard is not intended to prevent commercial television broadcasting licensees, and national broadcasters, from transmitting a television program in SDTV digital mode with:

  • (a)

    an audio component that complies with the standard; and

  • (b)

    1 or more audio components that do not comply with the standard.

Schedule 1SDTV format audio standard

(subregulation 2.01 (1))

  

1Definitions

 In this Standard:

IEC means the International Electrotechnical Commission.

ISO means the International Organization for Standardization.

MPEG-1 Layer 2 means a digital audio stream which complies with the requirements of either of the following international standards:

• (a)

  ISO/IEC 11172-3 (1993), also known as ‘Information Technology — Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media up to about 1.5 Mbit/s — Part 3: Audio’, as in force from time to time; and

• (b)

  ISO/IEC 13818-3 second edition (1998), also known as ‘Information Technology — Generic Coding of moving pictures and audio — Part 3: Audio’, as in force from time to time.

2Standard

 If a television program that is transmitted in SDTV digital mode has an audio component, the component must be capable of being decoded by a receiver that has only MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio decoding capability.

Note

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette