2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Telecommunications (Industry Levy) 

Amendment Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Communications) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications 

(Industry Levy) Act 2012, 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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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Act 2012

 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications 

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(Industry Levy) Act 2012, 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 may be cited as the Telecommunications (Industry Levy) 

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Amendment Act 2014. 

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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 

At the same time as Part 3 of Schedule 1 to 

the Telecommunications Legislation 

Amendment (Deregulation) Act 2014 

commences. 

 

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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Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Act 2012 

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1  Before section 1 

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Insert: 

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Part 1--Preliminary 

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2  Section 3 

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Repeal the section. 

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3  After section 4 

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Insert: 

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Part 2--Levy for the 2014-15 financial year and 

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later financial years 

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4A  Definitions 

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  In this Part: 

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eligible levy period has the same meaning as in the 

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Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) 

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Act 1999. 

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levy amount has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications 

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(Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999. 

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person has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 

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1997. 

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Note: 

See also subsection 5(1) of the Telecommunications (Consumer 

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Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999. 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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4B  Extension to external Territories 

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  This Part extends to each external Territory referred to in 

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section 10 of the Telecommunications Act 1997. 

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Note: 

See also section 7 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection 

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and Service Standards) Act 1999. 

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4C  Imposition of levy 

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  If a person has a levy amount for an eligible levy period because of 

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section 50 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and 

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Service Standards) Act 1999, levy is imposed on that amount. 

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4D  Amount of levy 

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  The amount of a levy that this Part imposes on a levy amount for 

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an eligible levy period is equal to that levy amount. 

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4E  Person liable to pay levy 

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  Levy imposed by this Part on a person's levy amount for an 

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eligible levy period is payable by the person. 

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4  Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 

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Repeal the sections. 

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5  Transitional

--levy for the 2012-13 financial year or the 

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2013-14 financial year 

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Despite the repeal of sections 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the 

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Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Act 2012 by this Schedule, those 

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sections continue in force, in relation to a levy amount for: 

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(a)  the eligible levy period that began on 1 July 2012; or 

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(b)  the eligible levy period that began on 1 July 2013; 

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as if those repeals had not happened. 

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