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1996
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Telecommunications
(Carrier Licence Fees) Termination Bill
1996
No. ,
1996
(Communications and the
Arts)
A Bill for an Act to terminate the
imposition of fees under the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act
1991, and for related purposes
9615520—1,025/30.10.1996—(155/96) Cat. No.
96 5379 1 ISBN 0644 481137
Contents
Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act
1991 6tclfth1.html
Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act
1991 6tclfth1.html
A Bill for an Act to terminate the imposition of fees
under the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act 1991, and for
related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees)
Termination Act 1996.
(1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Schedule 2 commences on 1 July 1998.
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this
Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
its terms.
Telecommunications
(Carrier Licence Fees) Act 1991
1 Section 4
Repeal the section, substitute:
If a person:
(a) held a general telecommunications licence or a public mobile licence
immediately before 1 July 1997; or
(b) ceased to hold such a licence at any time during the period:
(i) beginning on 2 July 1996; and
(ii) ending immediately before 1 July 1997;
the person must pay to the Commonwealth, by way of tax in respect of the
licence, on 1 July 1997, a fee of an amount determined in accordance with the
regulations as in force immediately before 1 July 1997.
2 Paragraph 6(a)
Before “all amounts”, insert “in any
case—”.
3 Paragraph 6(b)
Before “an amount”, insert “in any
case—”.
4 Paragraph 6(b)
Omit “carriers.”, substitute “carriers;
and”.
5 At the end of section 6
Add:
(c) in the case of the fees that become payable under this Act on 1 July
1997—the amount determined, by a written instrument made by the ACCC, to
be the proportion of the ACCC’s appropriation for the financial year
ending on 30 June 1997 that is attributable to the ACCC’s special
telecommunications functions and powers.
(2) An instrument under paragraph (1)(c) must be notified in the
Gazette before 1 July 1997.
(3) An instrument under paragraph (1)(c) is a disallowable instrument for
the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act
1901.
(4) In this section:
ACCC means the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission.
ACCC’s appropriation, in relation to a financial year,
means the total of the amounts appropriated, in respect of the financial year,
for the purposes of the ACCC.
ACCC’s special telecommunications functions and powers
means the functions and powers conferred on the ACCC by or under any of the
following provisions:
(a) a provision of the Telecommunications Act 1996;
(b) a provision of Part XIB of the Trade Practices Act
1974;
(c) a provision of Part XIC of the Trade Practices Act
1974;
(d) a provision of Part 3 of the Telecommunications (Transitional
Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1996;
and includes anything done by the ACCC (whether before or after the
commencement of this subsection) in preparation for the commencement of such a
provision.
6
Transitional—regulations
(1) This item applies to regulations made for the purposes of section 4 of
the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act 1991 that were in force
immediately before 1 July 1997.
(2) The regulations have effect as if they had been made for the purposes
of section 4 of the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act 1991 as
amended by this Act.
Telecommunications
(Carrier Licence Fees) Act 1991
1 The whole of the Act
Repeal the Act.