2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

THE SENATE 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

National Broadband Network 

Companies Amendment (Tasmania) Bill 

2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Senator Urquhart) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the National Broadband 

Network Companies Act 2011, and for related 

purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--National Broadband Network Companies Act 

2011

 

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No.      , 2014 

National Broadband Network Companies Amendment (Tasmania) Bill 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the National Broadband 

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Network Companies Act 2011, and for related 

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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 National Broadband Network 

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Companies Amendment (Tasmania) Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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  This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal 

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Assent. 

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3  Schedule(s) 

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  Each Act 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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 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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National Broadband Network Companies Act 2011  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

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National Broadband Network 

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Companies Act 2011 

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1  Before Subdivision A of Division 2 of Part 2 

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Insert: 

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Subdivision AA--Tasmania 

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8A  Tasmania--fibre to the premises 

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(1)  An NBN corporation must not be involved (including by entering 

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into a contract) in the creation, development or building of the 

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national broadband network in a way that involves: 

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(a)  fewer than 200,000 premises of end users in Tasmania being 

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connected to the network by optical fibre to the premises; or 

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(b)  premises of any end users in Tasmania being connected to 

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the network by wire, cable or optical fibre, other than by 

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optical fibre to the premises. 

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Note: 

Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply in relation to satellite or wireless 

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connections. 

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(2)  To avoid doubt, connections consisting of optical fibre to 

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connecting nodes supplemented by some other sort of wire or cable 

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connections from the nodes to the premises do not satisfy 

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subsection (1). 

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2  Application of amendments

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existing connections 

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Paragraph 8A(1)(b) of the National Broadband Network Companies Act 

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2011, as amended by this Schedule, does not apply in relation to a 

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premises that, just before the commencement of this item, was 

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connected to the national broadband network. 

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