Payment Systems (Regulation) Amendment (Interchange Fees) Regulations 2017 (Cth)

Payment Systems (Regulation) Amendment (Interchange Fees) Regulations 2017

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 13 April 2017

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Scott Morrison

Treasurer

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Payment Systems (Regulation) Amendment (Interchange Fees) Regulations 2017.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument 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. The whole of this instrument	1 July 2017.	1 July 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

1. (2)

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

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Payment Systems (Regulation) Regulations 2006

1

Regulation 5

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

5Specified interchange fees standards

For the purposes of paragraph 18A(2)(b) of the Act, the following standards are specified:

1. (a)

   the standard that is known as Standard No. 1 of 2016, The Setting of Interchange Fees in the Designated Credit Card Schemes and Net Payments to Issuers and that was determined by the Reserve Bank on 26 May 2016;

2. (b)

   the standard that is known as Standard No. 2 of 2016, The Setting of Interchange Fees in the Designated Debit and Prepaid Card Schemes and Net Payments to Issuers and that was determined by the Reserve Bank on 26 May 2016.