1996-97-98

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Amendment Bill 1998

No.      , 1998

(Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts)

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

9802420—787/23.3.1998—(24/98) Cat. No. 97 2795 7 ISBN 0644 518480

Contents
1	Short title	
2	Commencement	
3	Schedule(s)	
Schedule 1—Amendments	
Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997	

A Bill for an Act to amend the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997, and for related purposes
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		Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 costs)
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.