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2016
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Australian Postal Corporation
(Unsolicited Political Communications)
Bill 2016
No. , 2016
(Mr Wilkie)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Postal
Corporation Act 1989, and for related purposes
No. , 2016
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Bill 2016
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989
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No. , 2016
Australian Postal Corporation (Unsolicited Political Communications)
Bill 2016
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Postal
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Corporation Act 1989, 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 is the Australian Postal Corporation (Unsolicited
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Political Communications) Act 2016.
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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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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
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
1 July 2017.
1 July 2017
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 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989
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1 At the end of section 32A
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Add:
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(4) Australia Post must not, in supplying a bulk interconnection
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service, deliver a letter to premises within Australia if:
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(a) there is a sticker or sign displayed at the premises that
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contains the words "addressed mail only", "no unaddressed
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mail" or "no political material"; and
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(b) the letter is from, or contains information about:
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(i) a registered political party (within the meaning of the
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Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918); or
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(ii) a candidate in a House of Representatives or a Senate
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election; or
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(iii) a Member of the House of Representatives; or
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(iv) a Senator for a State or Territory.
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2 Constitutional matters
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(1)
The amendment made by item 1 does not apply to the extent (if any)
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that it would infringe any constitutional doctrine of implied freedom of
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political communication.
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(2)
The amendment made by item 1 does not apply to the extent (if any)
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that it would result in an acquisition of property (within the meaning of
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paragraph 51(xxxi) of the Constitution) from a person otherwise than on
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just terms (within the meaning of that paragraph of the Constitution).
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