Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996

No. 157 1

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Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Act 1991.

Dated 17 July 1996.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications and the Arts

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 30 June 1996.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Fees) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

3.   Regulation 4 (Limit on annual fees—proportion of Commonwealth’s contribution to ITU budget)

3.1   Regulation 4:

Omit the regulation, substitute:

Limit on annual fees—proportion of Commonwealth’s contribution to ITU budget

 “4. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 6 (b) of the Act, the amount determined for a calendar year is the product of:

• (a)

  the Commonwealth’s contribution to the budget of the ITU for that calendar year; and

• (b)

  the number (rounded to 2 decimal places) obtained using the formula:

;

 where:

‘T’ is the amount of the budget of the ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization sector for that calendar year; and

‘R’ is the amount of the budget of the ITU’s Radiocommunication sector for that calendar year.

 “(2) In this regulation, ‘ITU’ means the International Telecommunication Union.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 July 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1991 No. 358 as amended by 1992 No. 227; 1994 No. 225; 1995 No. 219.