Code 6 – Emergency Broadcasting

This Code is from the Community Radio Broadcasting Codes of Practice (2025) and goes into effect on 1 July 2025. For information about the current Codes of Practice visit https://www.cbaa.org.au/community-broadcasting/codes-of-practice-current.

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1. Where we offer emergency broadcasts, we will have procedures in place to enable appropriate local emergency broadcasts.
   
   
2. Where we offer emergency broadcasts, those broadcasts must include:
   1. accurate, reliable, and timely factual information; and
   2. locally relevant information, to the extent possible.
      
      
3. Where possible, we provide emergency broadcasts in the main languages other than English spoken in our local area.