Bill
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Deregulation) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2015-04-13. Communications portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-10-22
- second reading — 2014-10-22
- second reading — 2014-11-25
- second reading — 2014-11-25
- committee — 2014-11-25
- third reading — 2014-11-25
- introduced — 2014-12-01
- second reading — 2014-12-01
- second reading — 2015-03-25
- second reading — 2015-03-25
- third reading — 2015-03-25
- passed — 2015-03-25
- royal assent — 2015-04-13
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-10-22.
This bill is part of a package that aims to cut red tape by $1 billion each year and streamline telecommunications rules while keeping consumer protections in place.
It would abolish the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency and move its tasks to the Department of Communications, and also transfer rules about the industry levy to the Consumer Protection Act.
The Do Not Call Register would let people sign up their phone and fax numbers forever, without needing to renew their registration.
- Abolishes the Telecommunications Universal Service Management Agency.
- Transfers functions of the abolished agency to the Department of Communications.
- Moves industry levy provisions to the Consumer Protection Act.
- Makes the Do Not Call Register registration period permanent.
- Relaxes pre-selection obligations on telecommunications providers.
- Removes arrangements for registering e-marketing industry codes.
Telecommunications industry, consumers, and the Department of Communications.
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