Telecommunications (Interception—Carriers) Act 1992

No. 107 of 1992

An Act to delay the commencement of certain changes to the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

[Assented to 9 July 1992]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Interception—Carriers) Act 1992.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Definitions of "carrier" and "Corporation" in subsection 5(1) of the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

3.(1) Despite section 25 of the Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1991, the definitions of "carrier" and "Corporation" in subsection 5(1) of the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979, as in force on 30 June 1991, are taken to have continued in operation until immediately before the licensing time.

(2) Despite subsection 2(2) of the Telecommunications (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1991, the definition of "carrier" inserted in subsection 5(1) of the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 by section 25 of, and Schedule 1 to, the first-mentioned Act is taken to have commenced at the licensing time instead of on 1 July 1991.

(3) In this section:

"licensing time" means the latest time when a general telecommunications licence granted under section 57 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 on 22 November 1991 came into force.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

Senate on 24 June 1992

House of Representatives on 25 June 1992]