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TELECOMMUNICATIONS (NUMBERING CHARGES) AMENDMENT BILL 2004

2004

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES




Presented and read a first time









Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 2004

No. , 2004

(Communications, Information Technology and the Arts)



A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997, and for related purposes

Contents

Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997 3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Act 2004.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedules 1 and 2	At the same time as section 6 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2004 commences.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

(2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997

1 Section 5 (definition of ACA)

Repeal the definition.

2 Section 5

Insert:

ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

3 Subsection 5A(2)

Omit “ACA” (wherever occurring), substitute “ACMA”.

4 Subsection 13(1)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

5 Subsection 15(2)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

6 Subsection 18(2)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

7 Subsection 18(3)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

8 Subsection 20(1)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

9 Subsection 22(2)

Omit “ACA”, substitute “ACMA”.

10 Part 4

Repeal the Part.

Schedule 2—Transitional provisions

1 Definitions

In this Schedule:

Imposition Act means the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997.

transition time means the commencement of this Schedule.

2 Continued effect of transfer notices

A notice that was given to the ACA before the transition time under subsection 5A(2) of the Imposition Act as then in force has the same effect after the transition time as it would have had if the amendments of that subsection made by Schedule 1 to this Act had not been made.

3 Continued effect of amount etc. determinations

A determination made by the ACA under subsection 13(1), 15(2), 18(2), 20(1) or 22(2) of the Imposition Act that was in force immediately before the transition time has effect on and after the transition time as if it had been made by the ACMA under that subsection as amended by Schedule 1 to this Act.

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