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National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Amendment Act 2026

No. 74, 2026

An Act to amend the National Self‑exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Act 2019, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 August 2026]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act is the National Self‑exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Amendment Act 2026.

(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
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.	26 August 2026
2. Schedule 1	1 January 2027.	1 January 2027

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

National Self‑exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Act 2019

1 Section 6 (definition of cost)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

cost:

(a) in relation to the ACMA, means an amount that, in accordance with accrual‑based accounting principles, is treated as a cost of the ACMA; or

(b) in relation to the Department, means an amount that, in accordance with accrual‑based accounting principles, is treated as a cost of the Department.

2 At the end of subsection 10(1)

Add:

; (h) any costs incurred, during the levy period, by the ACMA or the Department in relation to promotion of the Register;

(j) any other costs incurred by the ACMA or the Department, during the levy period, in relation to the operation of the Register;

(k) any costs incurred by the ACMA or the Department, during a previous levy period, in relation to the operation of the Register that have not been counted for the purposes of this subsection.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 2 July 2026

Senate on 19 August 2026]

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