Bill
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01. Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-06-22
- second reading — 2017-06-22
- other — 2018-05-09
- second reading — 2018-05-09
- other — 2018-05-10
- second reading — 2018-05-10
- second reading — 2018-05-10
- committee — 2018-05-10
- third reading — 2018-05-10
- introduced — 2018-06-18
- second reading — 2018-06-18
- second reading — 2018-08-13
- second reading — 2018-08-16
- second reading — 2018-08-23
- other — 2019-07-01
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 2017-06-22.
This bill would change rules for superfast broadband networks to make structural separation clearer and create new commercial opportunities.
It would amend the Telecommunications Act 1997, the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.
From 1 July 2018, new local access lines would be subject to structural or functional separation rules, while networks built between 1 January 2011 and 30 June 2018 would be grandfathered under existing obligations.
- Reset the structural separation arrangements for superfast networks.
- Establish functional separation arrangements as an alternative to wholesale-only operation.
- Remove regulation of networks serving small business customers.
- Allow the ACCC to approve functionally separated networks and exempt small start-up networks from separation rules.
- Repeal Part 7 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 and associated provisions in the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.
- Amend exemptions for network extensions and real estate development projects, with some expiring on 1 July 2018.
Operators of superfast fixed-line broadband networks serving residential and small business customers, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and the Minister.
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