Bill
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2020-05-25. Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-11-28
- second reading — 2019-11-28
- second reading — 2020-02-13
- second reading — 2020-02-13
- third reading — 2020-02-13
- introduced — 2020-02-13
- second reading — 2020-02-13
- second reading — 2020-05-12
- second reading — 2020-05-14
- second reading — 2020-05-14
- committee — 2020-05-14
- third reading — 2020-05-14
- other — 2020-05-14
- passed — 2020-05-14
- royal assent — 2020-05-25
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-11-28.
This bill would put in place the main parts of the government's plan for broadband regulation, based on a 2014 review.
It would change the rules for superfast fixed-line networks to make the default separation requirement clearer and let the competition regulator approve functional separation or exempt small new networks.
Non-discrimination rules would apply to eligible services on lines built three months after the bill becomes law.
- Reset the structural separation arrangements for superfast networks.
- Establish functional separation as an option approved by the ACCC.
- Let the ACCC exempt small start-up networks from separation rules.
- Remove regulation of networks that serve small business customers.
- Grandfather existing wholesale-only obligations for networks built between 1 January 2011 and the designated commencement date.
- Let the Minister extend existing exemptions but not grant new ones after the designated commencement date.
Operators of superfast fixed-line networks, access seekers, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
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