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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2019-2020
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence
Tax) Amendment Bill 2020
No. , 2020
(Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act
1983
, and for related purposes
No. , 2020
Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020
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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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Part 1--Amendments
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Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983
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Part 2--Application provision
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Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Amendment Bill 2020
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A Bill for an Act to amend the
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Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act
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1983
, 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
Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax)
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Amendment Act 2020
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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. The whole of
this Act
A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.
However, if the provisions do not commence
within the period of 6 months beginning on
the day this Act receives the Royal Assent,
they commence on the day after the end of
that period.
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
Amendments
Part 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Part 1--Amendments
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Radiocommunications (Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983
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1 After subsection 6(1)
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Insert:
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(1A) If:
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(a) an application is made for a receiver licence for a period
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exceeding 12 months; and
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(b) when the application is made, the licence is covered by a
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determination under subsection (1B);
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tax is imposed on the issue of the licence for the period the licence
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is in force.
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(1B) The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, determine one or more
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classes of receiver licence for the purposes of subsection (1A).
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(1C) If:
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(a) an application is made for a receiver licence for a period
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exceeding 12 months; and
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(b) when the application is made, the licence is covered by a
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determination under subsection (1D);
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tax is imposed on:
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(c) the issue of the licence; and
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(d) each anniversary of the day the licence came into force
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occurring during the period the licence is in force.
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(1D) The ACMA may, by legislative instrument, determine one or more
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classes of receiver licence for the purposes of subsection (1C).
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2 Subsection 6(4)
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Repeal the subsection, substitute:
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(4) If:
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(a) a person applies for a receiver licence for a period exceeding
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12 months; and
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Schedule 1
Amendments
Part 1
Amendments
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(b) when the application is made, the licence is not covered by a
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determination under subsection (1B) or (1D);
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the person must elect, in the application for the licence, that either
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subsection (2) or (3) is to apply in respect of the licence.
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Amendments
Schedule 1
Application provision
Part 2
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Part 2--Application provision
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3 Application
--section 6 of the
Radiocommunications
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(Receiver Licence Tax) Act 1983
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The amendments of section 6 of the
Radiocommunications (Receiver
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Licence Tax) Act 1983
made by this Schedule apply in relation to a
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receiver licence if the application for the licence is made after the
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commencement of this item.
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