Radio Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2004
First Reading

Radio Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2004
First Reading

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2004

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Radio Licence Fees Amendment Bill 2004

No. , 2004

(Communications, Information Technology and the Arts)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Radio Licence Fees Act 1964, and for related purposes

Contents

1       Short title 1

2       Commencement 1

3       Schedule(s) 2

Schedule 1--Amendments       3

Radio Licence Fees Act 1964       3

Schedule 2--Transitional provisions       4

A Bill for an Act to amend the Radio Licence Fees Act 1964, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

        This Act may be cited as the Radio Licence Fees Amendment Act 2004.

2 Commencement

       (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
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedules 1 and 2	At the same time as section 6 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2004 commences.

Note:       This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

       (2) Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

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        Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Radio Licence Fees Act 1964

1 Subsection 4(1) (definition of ABA)

Repeal the definition.

2 Subsection 4(1)

Insert:

ACMA means the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

3 Section 7

Omit "ABA" (wherever occurring), substitute "ACMA".

Schedule 2--Transitional provisions

1 Definitions

In this Schedule:

Imposition Act means the Radio Licence Fees Act 1964.

transition time means the commencement of this Schedule.

2 Continued effect of directions about gross earnings

A direction made by the ABA under section 7 of the Imposition Act that was in force immediately before the transition time has effect on and after the transition time as if it had been made by the ACMA under that section as amended by Schedule 1 to this Act.