Telecommunications (Application Fees) Act 1991

No. 88 of 1991

An Act to provide for the payment of fees for certain applications made under the Telecommunications Act 1991

[Assented to 26 June 1991]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Application Fees) Act 1991.

Commencement

2.  (1) Subject to this section, this Act commences on 1 July 1991.

(2) Sections 1 and 2 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

Interpretation

3.  An expression has in this Act the same meaning as it has in the Telecommunications Act 1991.

Application fees

4.  (1) Where a person makes an eligible application of a kind for which the regulations fix a fee, the person must pay that fee to the Commonwealth.

(2) The following applications made to AUSTEL under the Telecommunications Act 1991 are eligible applications:

(a)     an application for an authorisation under section 108 of that Act;

(b)    an application for variation of a class licence under section 214 of that Act;

(c)     an application for registration of an eligible service under section 222 of that Act;

(d)    an application for enrolment under section 227 of that Act as a supplier of public access cordless telecommunications services;

(e)     an application for a permit under section 257 of that Act;

(f)     an application for variation of a permit under section 261 of that Act;

(g)     where regulations made because of section 266 of the Telecommunications Act 1991 provide for the payment of a fee for an application for the accreditation of a test house—an application for accreditation under regulations so made;

(h) an application for a cabling licence under section 270 of thatAct;

(i) an application for variation of a cabling licence under section 274 of that Act.

Regulations

5. (1) The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, fixing, for the purposes of subsection 4 (1), fees for eligible applications.

(2)    The regulations may fix different fees for different kinds of applications (specified in the regulations) even though all those applications are applications of a kind referred to in the same paragraph of subsection 4 (2).

(3)    The regulations must not fix a fee of more than $20,000 for an application of a kind referred to in paragraph 4 (2) (d).

(4)    The regulations must not fix a fee of more than $2,000 for an application of any other kind.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 7 May 1991

Senate on 29 May 1991]