Bill
Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Amendment Bill 2015
passed, as at 2016-02-25. Communications portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-12-02
- second reading — 2015-12-02
- second reading — 2016-02-10
- second reading — 2016-02-10
- third reading — 2016-02-10
- introduced — 2016-02-22
- second reading — 2016-02-22
- second reading — 2016-02-22
- second reading — 2016-02-22
- committee — 2016-02-22
- third reading — 2016-02-22
- passed — 2016-02-22
- royal assent — 2016-02-25
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-12-02.
This bill is part of a package that aims to cut red tape in broadcasting and telecommunications while keeping consumer protections.
The package would remove unnecessary rules, such as audit requirements for commercial broadcasters, and let the telecommunications industry manage phone numbering under an industry scheme.
The package would also repeal spent historical Acts and make the Telecommunications (Numbering Charges) Act 1997 consistent with the new numbering scheme.
- Streamline account keeping for commercial broadcasters by removing audit requirements and giving ACMA discretion to not pursue unpaid fees.
- Remove duplicate rules for notifying ACMA of control changes in media assets.
- Simplify television programme classification by removing different standards for films.
- Reduce duplication in ACMA's complaints handling and investigation functions.
- Remove ACCC's power to issue tariff filing directions to carriers and carriage service providers.
- Repeal redundant and spent historical Acts.
Commercial broadcasters, datacasting transmitter licensees, publishers, controllers of media assets, television broadcasters, carriers, carriage service providers, the telecommunications industry, ACMA, and the ACCC.
Sources
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