MaltaGeneral Interest Objectives (Television Services) (Selection Criteria) Regulations, weekly programming accessible to people with hearing disability (regulation 3(5))
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If the Broadcasting Authority has assigned your television service the status of a generalist general interest objective service, broadcast at least 30 minutes of weekly programming accessible to people with hearing disability (reg. 3(5)).
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Broadcasting Authority, which selects the television services that fulfil a general interest objective under the criteria these Regulations set out
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- a television service which is assigned the status of a generalist general interest objective service by the Broadcasting Authority
What this law does
Regulation 3(5) of the General Interest Objectives (Television Services) (Selection Criteria) Regulations requires a generalist general interest objective television service to broadcast at least 30 minutes of weekly programming accessible to people with hearing disability. Regulation 2 states that the Regulations set out the criteria the Broadcasting Authority adopts in selecting the television services that fulfil a general interest objective, whether generalist or niche.
Regulation 3(1) applies the mandatory criteria for generalist services to a television service which the Broadcasting Authority has assigned the status of a generalist general interest objective service.
Article 10(4E) of the Broadcasting Act defines a general interest objective service as a television broadcasting service which takes on the obligation of broadcasting a specified quantum of programmes of general interest which the National Broadcasting Policy considers part of the remit of a public service broadcasting service.
Article 40(2) of the Broadcasting Act opened the first call for applications to the broadcasting services existing on as free-to-air analogue broadcasters, and treats a public service television service then broadcasting as qualifying without applying. The Prime Minister made the Regulations as Legal Notice 240 of 2011, after consultation with the Broadcasting Authority, under article 40(3) of the Broadcasting Act. Regulation 1(2) of Legal Notice 240 of 2011 brings the Regulations into force on .
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