EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1989 No. 153
Issued by the Authority of the
Minister for Telecommunications and Aviation Support
Telecommunications (Applications Fees) Regulations
The Telecommunications (Applications Fees) Act 1989 provides for the setting of fees for a range of applications to the Australian Telecommunications Authority (AUSTEL) established under the Telecommunications Act 1989.
Subsection 5(1) of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, fixing fees for a range of applications specified in subsection 4(2) of the Act. The Act came into operation on 1 July 1989. Section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 allows the power to make regulations under an Act to be exercised after the passing of an Act and before the commencement of that Act.
The services for which fees are prescribed in the regulations are listed in the Schedule and relate to such matters as the provision of cabling work, the attachment of customer equipment to the public telephone network, and the operation of private networks and value added services.
NOTES ON CLAUSES
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations be cited as the Telecommunications (Application Fees) Regulations).
Regulation 2 defines ‘the Act’ as the Telecommunications (Application Fees) Act 1989.
Regulation 3 fixes, by Schedule, the fee to be charged for an application of a specified kind.
The Regulations came into effect on the commencement of the Act.