Mandatory service duties with defined material and territorial scope
DIS Standard2024 — commenced 22 December
Australia's Designated Internet Services Class 1A and Class 1B Material Industry Standard 2024 is delegated legislation under the Online Safety Act. It was made on 19 June, registered on 21 June and commenced on 22 December 2024.
Duties and reporting limits
The standard's scope and definitions, including immaterial-risk exclusions, determine which duties apply. Section 22 addresses specified child-abuse and pro-terror output safeguards; section 13 requires relevant terms and restriction or removal rights under stated triggers. Technical and proportionality qualifications remain part of the instrument. Section 36 has limits on the timing and frequency of its particular information requests, while section 38 imposes record retention. Those reporting limits do not defer all substantive duties or establish that any named operator complies.
DIS Standard2024 — commenced 22 December → Australian eSafety Commissioner
authorizes bounded reports and requires compliance records
2024-12-22 – 2024-12-22
Section36 request cannot issue before first anniversary under that section and no more than once per 12 months; two-month response period. Section38 requires records for two years after relevant calendar-year end. Other reporting powers and substantive duties are not postponed by these limits; no request or delivery to a particular service acquired.
imposes category-specific duties from 22 December 2024
Commencement anchor; not an expiry date. Does not verify the operator intended this instrument.
Section5 limits territorial/service scope; section 6 definition and immaterial-risk exclusion control classification. Section22 requires specified child-abuse/pro-terror output safeguards, review and relevant detection; limited control/visibility qualifications matter. Not a finding that this operator is compliant or every adult output prohibited.
requires particular terms and appropriate enforcement
2024-12-22 – 2024-12-22
Section13 requires terms against class1A/1B use and restriction/removal rights for specified misuse, with appropriate enforcement under specified triggers and subsection6 burden. This is not legal compulsion for every possible private policy or restriction. Technical, encryption and proportionality qualifications elsewhere remain relevant.
DIS Standard2024 — commenced 22 December → Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
names it as an example of independent expert verification tools
DIS commencement anchor; not observed procurement or use.
Section 6 Note 2 supplies a legal recognition route for known pro-terror material. Examples are nonexclusive; no purchase requirement, actual deployment or incorporation of every private classification into law.
Julie Inman Grant → DIS Standard2024 — commenced 22 December
made the industry standard under statutory authority
2024-06-19 – 2024-06-19
Made19 June 2024 under Online Safety Act section 145, registered 21 June. This is delegated legislation, not case-specific permission. Existing public-official identity reused.
Made19 June 2024 under Online Safety Act section 145, registered 21 June. This is delegated legislation, not case-specific permission. Existing public-official identity reused.
Commencement anchor; not an expiry date. Does not verify the operator intended this instrument.
Section5 limits territorial/service scope; section 6 definition and immaterial-risk exclusion control classification. Section22 requires specified child-abuse/pro-terror output safeguards, review and relevant detection; limited control/visibility qualifications matter. Not a finding that this operator is compliant or every adult output prohibited.
Section13 requires terms against class1A/1B use and restriction/removal rights for specified misuse, with appropriate enforcement under specified triggers and subsection6 burden. This is not legal compulsion for every possible private policy or restriction. Technical, encryption and proportionality qualifications elsewhere remain relevant.
Section36 request cannot issue before first anniversary under that section and no more than once per 12 months; two-month response period. Section38 requires records for two years after relevant calendar-year end. Other reporting powers and substantive duties are not postponed by these limits; no request or delivery to a particular service acquired.
DIS commencement anchor; not observed procurement or use.
Section 6 Note 2 supplies a legal recognition route for known pro-terror material. Examples are nonexclusive; no purchase requirement, actual deployment or incorporation of every private classification into law.
DIS commencement anchor; not observed procurement or use.
Section 6 Note 2 supplies a legal recognition route for known pro-terror material. Examples are nonexclusive; no purchase requirement, actual deployment or incorporation of every private classification into law.