Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Amendment Act 1998

Act No. 68 of 1998 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 27 September 2005

[This Act was amended by Act No. 116 of 2005]

Amendment from Act No. 116 of 2005

[Schedule 2 (item 1) amended Heading to Item 2 of Schedule 1

Schedule 2 (item 1) commenced immediately after 30 June 1998]

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing,
Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra

Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................

2............ Commencement..................................................................................

3............ Schedule(s)..........................................................................................

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                

Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997                                

An Act to amend the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997, and for related purposes

Assented to 30 June 1998

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Amendment Act 1998.

2  Commencement

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

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                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997

1  At the end of subsection 15(1)

Add:

             ; and (e)  the amount determined by the Industry Minister, by written instrument, to be the proportion of the Commonwealth’s costs for the immediately preceding financial year that is attributable to the administration of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications Act 1997.

2  Subsection 15(4) (at the end of the definition of cost)

Add:

             ; and (c)  in relation to the Commonwealth, means an amount that, in accordance with accrual-based accounting principles, is treated as a cost of the Commonwealth.

3  Subsection 15(4)

Insert:

Industry Minister means the Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism.

Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 1 April 1998

Senate on 28 May 1998

(24/98)