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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (INDUSTRY LEVY) BILL 2011
2010-2011
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Bill
2011
No. , 2011
(Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy)
A Bill for an Act to impose a levy to support the
provision of public interest telecommunications
services, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Definitions
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2
4
Act to bind Crown ............................................................................. 2
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Extension to external Territories ........................................................ 3
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Imposition of levy .............................................................................. 3
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Amount of levy .................................................................................. 3
8 Person
liable
to
pay levy .................................................................... 3
Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Bill 2011 No. , 2011 1
A Bill for an Act to impose a levy to support the
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provision of public interest telecommunications
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services, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Industry Levy)
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Act 2011.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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Section 3
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s)
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 and
2 and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Sections 3 to 8
At the same time as section 3 of the
Telecommunications Universal Service
Management Agency Act 2011 commences.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Definitions
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In this Act:
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eligible levy period has the same meaning as in the
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Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency Act
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2011.
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levy amount has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications
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Universal Service Management Agency Act 2011.
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person has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications
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Universal Service Management Agency Act 2011.
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4 Act to bind Crown
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This Act binds the Crown in right of each of the States, of the
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Australian Capital Territory, of the Northern Territory and of
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Section 5
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Norfolk Island. However, it does not bind the Crown in right of the
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Commonwealth.
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5 Extension to external Territories
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This Act extends to each external Territory referred to in section 9
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of the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency
5
Act 2011.
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6 Imposition of levy
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If a person has a levy amount for an eligible levy period because of
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section 99 of the Telecommunications Universal Service
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Management Agency Act 2011, levy is imposed on that amount.
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7 Amount of levy
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The amount of a levy that this Act imposes on a levy amount for an
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eligible levy period is equal to that levy amount.
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8 Person liable to pay levy
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Levy imposed on a person's levy amount for an eligible levy
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period is payable by the person.
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