Bill
Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Consumer Safeguards and Other Measures) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2024-05-31. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-12-07
- second reading — 2023-12-07
- second reading — 2024-02-13
- other — 2024-02-13
- second reading — 2024-02-14
- second reading — 2024-02-14
- other — 2024-02-14
- third reading — 2024-02-14
- introduced — 2024-02-26
- second reading — 2024-02-26
- second reading — 2024-05-16
- third reading — 2024-05-16
- passed — 2024-05-16
- royal assent — 2024-05-31
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 2023-12-07.
This bill would change several telecommunications laws to improve how broadband and phone services are provided to homes and businesses.
It would update the rules for who must supply internet connections, give regulators more power to enforce standards, and allow the minister to designate new service providers for certain areas.
The bill would also let the Australian Communications and Media Authority order developers to install fibre-ready cabling near new housing estates.
- The bill would refine the statutory infrastructure provider regime, including how service areas are set, changed, or removed.
- It would give the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission stronger enforcement and reporting powers.
- The bill would allow the minister to decide service areas for a primary universal service provider, such as if the framework extends to Norfolk Island.
- It would require developers to install functional fibre-ready facilities near new developments, or face remedial notices from the regulator.
- The bill would let the regulator link carriers and providers to their customer service performance in public reports.
- It would also make technical amendments to the Telecommunications Act 1997 and the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999.
Industry participants, including carriers, carriage service providers, developers, and consumers, as well as the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and the minister.
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