Telecommunications (Universal Service Levy) Amendment Act 2000

No. 131, 2000

An Act to amend the Telecommunications (Universal Service Levy) Act 1997, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 November 2000]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Universal Service Levy) Amendment Act 2000.

This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000.

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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Telecommunications (Universal Service Levy) Act 1997

1A Section 4

Omit “section 10”, substitute “section 8B”.

1 Section 5 (definition of participating carrier)

Repeal the definition.

2 Section 5

Insert:

participating person has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

3 Section 6

Repeal the section, substitute:

6 Imposition of levy

If a participating person has a levy debit balance for a claim period because of section 20S of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999, levy is imposed on that balance.

4 Section 7

Omit “financial year”, substitute “claim period”.

5 Section 8

Repeal the section, substitute:

8 Participating person liable to pay levy

Levy imposed on a participating person’s levy debit balance for a claim period is payable by the participating person.

6 Application

Despite the amendments made by this Schedule, the Telecommunications (Universal Service Levy) Act 1997 continues to apply, after the commencement of this item, in relation to levy for a financial year that ended on or before 30 June 2000, as if those amendments had not been made.

(127/00)

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 June 2000

Senate on 11 October 2000]