Online Safety Act 2024 Summary Report. Under australia’s online safety act, which commenced in january, 2022, industry associations were to draft enforceable codes covering eight sectors of the online. The enhanced online safety regime under the online safety act 2021 (cth), which commenced on 23 january 2022, represents a new era of online regulation in.

We are pleased that the australian parliament has now passed this important legislation and it is now a step closer to becoming law. The requirements apply to covered platforms, which are applications or services (e.g., social networks) that connect to the internet and are likely to be used by minors.