STATUTORY RULES

1971 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE OVERSEAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1946-1971.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Overseas Telecommunications Act 1946-1971.

Dated this ninth day of December, 1971.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission Regulations†

Parts.

1. Regulation 2 of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the words and figures “Part VIII.—Liability of Commission to Taxation (Regulation 43).”.

2. After Part VII. of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission Regulations the following Part is inserted:—

“Part VIII.—Liability of Commission to Taxation.

Liability to pay-roll tax.

“43. Sub-section (2.) of section 52 of the Act does not apply in relation to taxation under a law of a State or of a Territory of the Commonwealth that relates to the imposition upon employers of a tax on wages paid or payable by them and the assessment and collection of that tax.”.

Application.

3. The Part inserted in the Overseas Telecommunications Commission Regulations by the last preceding regulation has effect, and shall be deemed to have taken effect, from and including the first day of September, 1971.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1971.

† Statutory Rules 1955, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1970, No. 197; and 1971, No. 132.

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