Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Amendment Act 2015 (Cth)

Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Amendment Act 2015

No. 37, 2015

An Act to amend the Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Act 2012, and for related purposes

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Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Amendment Act 2015

No. 37, 2015

An Act to amend the Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Act 2012, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 April 2015]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Amendment Act 2015.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this Act 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. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	13 April 2015
2. Schedule 1	At the same time as Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Deregulation) Act 2015 commences.	1 July 2015

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

1. (2)

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

3Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 (Industry Levy) Act 2012

1

Before section 1

Insert:

Part 1—Preliminary

2

Section 3

Repeal the section.

3

After section 4

Insert:

Part 2—Levy for the 2014‑15 financial year and later financial years

4ADefinitions

In this Part:

eligible levy period has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

levy amount has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

person has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Note: See also subsection 5(1) of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

4BExtension to external Territories

This Part extends to each external Territory referred to in section 10 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Note: See also section 7 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.

4CImposition of levy

If a person has a levy amount for an eligible levy period because of section 50 of the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999, levy is imposed on that amount.

4DAmount of levy

The amount of a levy that this Part imposes on a levy amount for an eligible levy period is equal to that levy amount.

4EPerson liable to pay levy

Levy imposed by this Part on a person’s levy amount for an eligible levy period is payable by the person.

4

Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8

Repeal the sections.

5

Transitional—levy for the 2012‑13 financial year or the 2013‑14 financial year

Despite the repeal of sections 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Telecommunications (Industry Levy) Act 2012 by this Schedule, those sections continue in force, in relation to a levy amount for:

1. (a)

   the eligible levy period that began on 1 July 2012; or

2. (b)

   the eligible levy period that began on 1 July 2013;

as if those repeals had not happened.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 22 October 2014

Senate on 1 December 2014]

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