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1998-1999-2000
The Parliament
of the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Telecommunications
(Universal Service Levy) Amendment Bill
2000
No. ,
2000
(Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Telecommunications (Universal Service Levy) Act 1997, and for related
purposes
ISBN: 0642 439479
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications
(Universal Service Levy) Act 1997, and for related
purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Universal Service
Levy) Amendment Act 2000.
This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, immediately after the
commencement of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service
Standards) Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000.
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any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.
1 Section 5 (definition of participating
carrier)
Repeal the definition.
2 Section 5
Insert:
participating person has the same meaning as in Part 2
of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act
1999.
3 Section 6
Repeal the section, substitute:
If a participating person has a levy debit balance for a claim period
because of section 20S of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection
and Service Standards) Act 1999, levy is imposed on that balance.
4 Section 7
Omit “financial year”, substitute “claim
period”.
5 Section 8
Repeal the section, substitute:
Levy imposed on a participating person’s levy debit balance for a
claim period is payable by the participating person.
6 Application
Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, the Telecommunications
(Universal Service Levy) Act 1997 continues to apply, after the commencement
of this item, in relation to levy for a financial year that ended on or before
30 June 2000, as if those amendments had not been made and that repeal had
not happened.