Telecommunications Amendment (Disclosure of Information for the Purpose of Cyber Security) Regulations 2023 (Cth)

Telecommunications Amendment (Disclosure of Information for the Purpose of Cyber Security) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 28 September 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Michelle Rowland

Minister for Communications

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Telecommunications Amendment (Disclosure of Information for the Purpose of Cyber Security) Regulations 2023.

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	The day after this instrument is registered.	30 September 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Telecommunications Act 1997.

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Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

Telecommunications Regulations 2021

1

Subsection 15A(5)

Omit “notifiable”, substitute “legislative”.

1. 2

   Subsection 15A(6) (paragraph (b) of the definition of specified document)

Omit “notifiable”, substitute “legislative”.

1. 3

   Subsection 15A(6) (paragraph (b) of the definition of specified information)

Omit “notifiable”, substitute “legislative”.

4

Subsection 15A(8)

Omit “the day after the end of the period of 12 months starting on the day this section commences”, substitute “12 October 2024”.

5

Subparagraph 15B(2)(d)(ii)

Omit “notifiable”, substitute “legislative”.

6

Subsection 15B(3)

Omit “notifiable” (wherever occurring), substitute “legislative”.

7

Subsection 15B(6)

Omit “the day after the end of the period of 12 months starting on the day this section commences”, substitute “12 October 2024”.